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To enfranchise a group is to give them the right to vote. A government may enfranchise women, poorer workers, or people who were left out before. It is a formal word from history, law, and the news; you will not hear it when friends talk about an election. Though actually, the older French idea was “set free” or “make someone a free person with rights,” and English kept that wider meaning for a long time. In the English you will read now, it almost always means the vote. The opposite is disenfranchise: to take that right away.
賦予選舉權
組成From Old French enfranchir (“to set free”), from en- (“in”) + franchir (“to set free”); equivalent to en- + franchise.
同家族的字
- franchiseolder English: a right or freedom — this is that right being given
- disenfranchisethe opposite: take the right to vote away
- enfranchisementthe noun for the act of giving the vote
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enfranchiseverb/ɛnˈfɹænt͡ʃaɪz/
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To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
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To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
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To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
- Parental control had been so decisive in Louisa's case that marriage bonds had not hitherto enfranchised her from the former; she, therefore, at the proper time of light, appeared on the arm of Signor Riccardini, and laid her purse on the lap of her mother (who she knew had at least three hundred pounds in possession), at the risk of being deemed extravagant by her husband.
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historicallawpropertyto convert a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。