| 单词 | rotten borough |
| 释义 | rotten boroughnoun(before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament. an election district that has more representatives in a legislative body than the number of its constituents would normally call for. Origin of rotten boroughFirst recorded in 1805–15 Words nearby rotten boroughrototome, rotovate, rotproof, rotten, rotten apple, rotten borough, rotten egg, rotten ice, rottenstone, rotten to the core, rotter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rotten borough
British Dictionary definitions for rotten boroughrotten borough noun(before the Reform Act of 1832) any of certain English parliamentary constituencies with only a very few electorsCompare pocket borough Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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