suffrage

noun
🔊/ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
🔊/ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
[uncountable]
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  1. the right to vote in political elections选举权;投票权
    • universal suffrage (= the right of all adults to vote)普选权
    • women’s suffrage妇女的选举权
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySuffrage is used before these nouns:
    • movement
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘prayers said for others’, also ‘assistance’): from Latin suffragium, reinforced by French suffrage. The modern sense of ‘right to vote’ was originally US (dating from the late 18th cent.).