| 单词 | pocket borough |
| 释义 | pocket borough (once / 155518 pages) n WORD FAMILY pocket borough: pocket boroughs USAGE EXAMPLESThe price he paid was compensation in money to the owners of pocket boroughs and profuse grants of peerages. Smith, Goldwin, Irish History and the Irish Questio...(2011) LaFontaine was peaceably returned for his 'pocket borough,' the fourth riding of York, but the candidacy of Baldwin for Hastings had another issue. MacMechan, Archibald, The Winning of Popular Government—A...(2010) He entered the House of Commons from Portarlington, a pocket borough in Ireland, and was influential in the discussions on resumption. Mill, John Stuart, Principles Of Political Economy—Ab...(2010) n a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family Hyper borough an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament |
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