enfranchisement

1. 1.

   freedom from political subjugation or servitude

   Broaderfreedom
2. 2.

   a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)

   Synonymsfranchise

   Broaderlegal right

   Narrowerright to vote

   law

3. 3.

   the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on

   Synonymscertification

   Antonymsdisenfranchisement

   Broaderauthorization

   Narroweraccreditation

Other forms of enfranchisement

plural

enfranchisements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enfranchisement

What does enfranchisement mean?

enfranchisement means "freedom from political subjugation or servitude". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enfranchisement?

enfranchisement has 5 syllables: en-fran-chi-se-ment. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for enfranchisement?

Close synonyms include franchise, certification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of enfranchisement?

The recorded antonyms are disenfranchisement.

Is enfranchisement a common word?

enfranchisement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.