universal suffrage

1. 1.

   suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country

   Broaderright to vote

Questions about universal suffrage

What does universal suffrage mean?

universal suffrage means "suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country".

Is universal suffrage a common word?

universal suffrage 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.