CONSTITUENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constituency mean? 

• CONSTITUENCY (noun)
  The noun CONSTITUENCY has 1 sense:

1. the body of voters who elect a representative for their area

  Familiarity information: CONSTITUENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTITUENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of voters who elect a representative for their area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("constituency" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (members of "constituency"):

constituent (a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes)

Holonyms ("constituency" is a member of...):

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)