pocket borough

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters. historical

词形变化

pocket boroughs plural
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