Enfranchise

Enfranchise
adj.

Definition: 1. having citizenship or the right to vote; 2. freed from slavery
Synonyms: freed, liberated, emancipated, authorized, sanctioned
Antonyms: disenfranchised

Sample Sentences:

The newly enfranchised citizens voted en masse on election day.

Women were finally enfranchised in the U.S. in the 1920's.

Usage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8845881/Europe-referendum-is-a-chance-to-enfranchise-voters.html

http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/08/31/tcbh.hwr032.abstract

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Enfranchised is formed from the word franchise, which can refer to the right to vote. Enfranchised is also a verb in the past tense or past perfect. The related adjective disenfranchised is used to describe people who were not given the right to vote or from whom that right was taken away.

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