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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 1981 COCA: 1502

democracy

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Related topics: Government, Citizenship
de·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi $ dɪˈmɑː-/ ●●○ W3 noun (plural democracies)  
1  [uncountableU]PG a system of government in which every citizen in the country can vote to elect its government officials 民主政体，民主制度
 a return to democracy after 16 years of military rule
16年军人统治后民主制度的恢复
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2  [countableC]PG a country that has a government which has been elected by the people of the country 民主国家
 a parliamentary democracy
议会民主制国家
 Western democracies
西方的民主国家
3  [uncountableU]PGC a situation or system in which everyone is equal and has the right to vote, make decisions etc 〔组织等中的〕民主，民主作风 → democratic
 democracy within the trade unions
工会内部的民主
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a country that has a government which has been elected by the people of the country
adjectives
a parliamentary democracy (=one with an elected parliament)
Britain is a parliamentary democracy.
a multiparty democracy (=with a number of political parties)
It is one of the few countries in the area that is a true multiparty democracy.
a Western democracy
The sanctions are supported by all the major Western democracies.
a new democracy
They are facing many of the same problems that all new democracies experience.
an emerging/fledgling democracy (=new)
the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe
Examples from the Corpus
democracy• In 1974, democracy returned to Greece after seven years of military rule.• Costa Rica is a democracy.• The team's partnership is not a democracy; executives Larry Baer and Bob Quinn are the ones who make decisions.• And the growth of an emerging democracy over the past two years provides an outlet for his critics' denunciations.• The answer is: industrial democracy.• His statistical analysis reveals a strong positive effect of per capita income on the level of democracy.• We agree that it is the best way to help those countries to establish sound democracies and a sound economy.• the democracies of Western Europe• Adolfo Suarez supervised Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s.• You say that this conflict is partly the result of governments in New Delhi undermining democracy in the state.• Until the past decade, the technology on which democracy had operated for some 2,500 years had not changed much.
parliamentary democracy• As a whole it reaffirmed liberal individualism, pluralism and parliamentary democracy.• In most parliamentary democracies voter turnout tends to be around half to three-quarters of the electorate.• But the Party continues to flout its own rules and the basic principles of parliamentary democracy.• That they are an essential part of any system of parliamentary democracy will be of limited consolation to them.• Within our system of parliamentary democracy, only inter-party competition was seen as crucial and desirable.• As Winston Churchill once said, parliamentary democracy is a very bad system - but no one has found a better one.• For the whole sample, the comparison reveals that presidential democracies are more likely to break down than parliamentary democracies.• However, we should interfere in local government with some trepidation because local democracy and local accountability underpin parliamentary democracy and accountability.
From Longman Business Dictionary
democracyde·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsidɪˈmɑː-/ noun (plural democracies)
1[uncountableU] a system of government in which members of the government are elected by the people of a country
They carried banners demanding democracy and a free press.
→ social democracy
2[countableC] a country that has a government which has been elected by the people of the country
He said we should be increasing our support for Russia’s democracy.
3[countableC, uncountableU] a situation or system in which everyone has the right to be involved in making decisions
People will continue to view our party with suspicion until we display democracy within our organization.
→ workplace democracy
Origin democracy
(1500-1600) Old French democratie, from Greek demokratia, from demos “people” + -kratia “rule”
de·moc·ra·cy noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 1981 COCA: 1502
democracy

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + DEMOCRACY | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤genuine, real, true真正的民主▸➤stable穩定的民主▸➤political政治民主▸➤constitutional, parliamentary, participatory, representative立憲／議會／參與式／代議制民主➤direct直接民主▸➤industrial, liberal工業化／自由民主▸➤multiparty多黨民主▸➤modern, new現代民主；新民主▸➤Western西方民主VERB + DEMOCRACY➤believe in, promote, support相信／推動／支持民主◇people who believe in true democracy相信有真正民主的人們➤defend, fight for, protect保衞／爭取／保護民主▸➤build, create, establish建設／創建／建立民主▸➤bring, spread帶來／傳播民主▸➤restore恢復民主◇The military regime has promised to restore democracy soon.軍事政權承諾將很快恢復民主。➤undermine破壞民主PREPOSITION➤in a/the democracy在民主國家中◇We live in a multiparty democracy.我們生活在一個多黨制民主國家。PHRASES➤the road to democracy通往民主之路；民主進程◇the need to overcome political apathy and advance on the road to democracy克服政界的淡漠以及推動民主進程的需要➤the spread of democracy民主的傳播
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 1981 COCA: 1502
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 1981 COCA: 1502
democracy
Systems of government and types of government: absolutism, anarchy, autarky...
General words for countries: nation, republic, democracy...

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