单词 | grandfather clause |
释义 | grandfather clause n. 1. A provision in a statute that exempts an activity or item from new regulations that would otherwise prevent engagement in that activity or use of that item. 2. A clause in some southern state constitutions that exempted descendants of persons allowed to vote prior to the Civil War from subsequent voting restrictions, meaning that such restrictions disfranchised many African Americans while not applying to many whites. |
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