pocket borough

1. 1.

   a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family

   Broaderborough

Questions about pocket borough

What does pocket borough mean?

pocket borough means "a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family".

Is pocket borough a common word?

pocket borough 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.