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WordBand 5.5–6.5Core (NGSL)
democracy
/dɪˈmɒkɹəsi/
noun
a system of government in which the people of a country can vote to elect who will govern them
- “There's no democracy where people have no right to demonstrate.”Tatoeba
- “Democracy defends the idea that power belongs to the people.”Tatoeba
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)