suffrage
noun /ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
/ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
[uncountable]- the right to vote in political elections
- universal suffrage (= the right of all adults to vote)
- women’s suffrage
Oxford Collocations DictionarySuffrage is used before these nouns:- movement
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘prayers said for others’, also ‘assistance’): from Latin suffragium, reinforced by French suffrage. The modern sense of ‘right to vote’ was originally US (dating from the late 18th cent.).