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POCKET BOROUGH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pocket borough mean?
• POCKET BOROUGH (noun)
The noun POCKET BOROUGH has 1 sense:
1. a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family
Familiarity information: POCKET BOROUGH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("pocket borough" is a kind of...):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
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