democracy
英[dɪ'mɒkrəsɪ]
美[də'mɑkrəsi]
- n. 民主，民主主义；民主政治
英英释意
- 1. the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
- 2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- 3. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group