释义 |
plebiscitepleb‧is‧cite /ˈplebəsət $ -saɪt/ noun [countable, uncountable] formal plebisciteOrigin: 1500-1600 French plébiscite, from Latin plebis scitum ‘decision of the common people’ - Even after he stepped down in 1990 following a plebiscite rejecting his rule, his spell still hung over the nation.
- Every week a plebiscite of sorts is held to determine which programs are popular and which are not.
- If this had been a plebiscite, we would have won in a landslide.
- It was clear that the General's opponents were right: this was a plebiscite.
- Napoleon and Louis Napoleon favoured government by plebiscite or caesarian democracy.
- Newfoundland, finally, became the tenth province after a plebiscite in 1948.
- Some countries seek to involve the people more directly, from time to time, by the use of plebiscites.
- The administration will also hold a plebiscite within the next six months for the approval of constitutional reforms.
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