enfranchisement
/ɛnˈfran(t)ʃɪzm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
1The giving of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote: the World War hastened the enfranchisement of women...
- By 1892, borough enfranchisement had risen to 60% of adult males.
- This is the eighth measure proposing female enfranchisement that the South Australian Parliament has considered.
- If black enfranchisement meant the dilution of Caucasian suffrage, whites just had to get over it.
2 historical Liberation from imprisonment or slavery.I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population....
- The issue was only resolved by the enfranchisement of allies who had not participated or had laid down their arms (the historic Julian law of 90).
- Enfranchisement of slaves, often in a body, and ransom of slaves and captives became works of piety.
3 Law, British The action of making land freehold: legal costs attributable to the enfranchisement of leasehold properties...
- The legal and political history of the tenant's claim to enfranchisement of the property is not relevant to the valuation to be made by the Tribunal.
- This was an application by the Lessor for determination of the price for enfranchisement of the subject property under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967.
- Mr West said he had advised clients with residential and commercial property on letting and leasehold enfranchisement matters.