Constituency

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The body of voters or the residents of a district represented by an elected legislator or official.
  • noun. The district so represented.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A group of supporters or patrons.
  • noun. A group served by an organization or institution; a clientele.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A body of constituents or principals, especially a body of persons voting for an elective officer, particularly for a municipal, officer or a member of a legislative body; in a more general sense, the whole body of residents of the district or locality represented by such an officer or legislator.
  • noun. Hence Any body of persons who may be conceived to have a common representative; those to whom one is in any way accountable; clientele: as, the constituency of a newspaper (that is, its readers); the constituency of a hotel (its guests or customers).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A district represented by one or more elected officials.
  • noun. The voters within such a district.
  • noun. An interest group or fan base.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the body of voters who elect a representative for their area
  • Word Usage
    "The real vote he will have to explain to his constituency is the vote of confidence for the Kenyan/Indonesian in the WH. rob, austin tx"
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