enfranchise
Women's immense contribution during the war led directly to their enfranchisement.
Social transformation was brought about by the enfranchisement of working populations.
Improvements in voter registration systems can help ensure the enfranchisement of eligible citizens.

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enfranchisement | Business English

enfranchisement
noun[ U ]
uk /ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzmənt/us
PROPERTY, LAW
the right to buy the freehold(= legal ownership and control for an unlimited time) of a property instead of renting it leasehold(= for an agreed, limited period of time):
Blocks with 10% commercial property are at present barred from enfranchisement.
FINANCE
the fact of giving voting rights to people who own non-voting shares in a company:
The group, who also own 18.1% of the existing A ordinary shares, will emerge with 20.4% of the enlarged share capital following enfranchisement.

Examples of enfranchisement

enfranchisement
For those born after 1945, whose first election was 1970, length of enfranchisement is simply age minus 18.
In the age of mass enfranchisement, this probably means campaigns must be able to access the mass media either directly (advertisements) or indirectly (news coverage).
Political liberalization and the gradual enfranchisement of colonial populations during this period led colonial governments to reconceptualize their ethnic subjects as national citizens.
At a second and more profound level this technical enfranchisement of our desires also made possible new forms of sympathy and engagement.
As discussed, the classic party identification model assumes that voters born prior to mass enfranchisement will be less strongly partisan compared to people born later.
But the ways in which diversity and diversification so often entail kinds of new enfranchisement are of great interest.
The author concludes that all this occurred a long time before the development of demands for the enfranchisement of women.
To do so not only requires an economic framework that provides the possibility of success, but also the enfranchisement and incorporation of local communities in the decisionmaking process.
In most instances, enfranchisement could be bought ; it could be inherited ; or it could be claimed after a successful apprenticeship in the household of a citizen.
Even after enfranchisement, she suggests, ' there were no spaces which women could fill on equal terms with men, and men ... would continue to set the political agenda ' (p. 140).
For those who did not share his approach, however, the switch to rent was a fundamental alteration which destroyed the only safeguard against an indiscriminate enfranchisement.
They understand that the empowerment, enfranchisement and liberation of women is possible only if they can have control of their own bodies.
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