Antonym: autocratic, despotic, tyrannical. Similar words: Democrat, democratic, meritocracy, accuracy, crack, conspiracy, demoralize, demonstrate. Meaning: [dɪ'mɒkrəsɪ] 
n. 1. the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives 2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them 3. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group.
n. 1. the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives 2. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them 3. the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group. 
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91 In a democracy, it is no bad thing to be able to compromise .
92 Democracy responds and adjusts to the will of the people.
93 Democracy is incompatible with excessive, bureaucratic regimentation of social life.
94 The constitutional changes have been hailed as a triumph for democracy.
95 A collapse into new forms of fascism is inherently unlikely in any Western democracy.
96 Then in the last couple of years, the movement for democracy began to heat up.
97 A number of these states are moving timidly towards multi-party democracy.
98 The groups at the conference spoke piously of their fondness for democracy.
99 A dictator is unlikely to become a good leader in a democracy. A leopard cannot change its spots.
100 The trade union block vote is an excrescence on democracy.
101 This is not democratic. It is the antithesis of democracy.
102 The revolution set the country on the road to democracy.
103 The paper says the President's move has called into question the whole basis of democracy in the country.
104 The recent free elections mark the next step in the country's progress towards democracy.
105 The Secretary of Defence has said that he would not stand by and let democracy be undermined.
106 He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.
107 She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.
108 You can't expect not to have a debate; that's what comes with the territory in a democracy.
109 His commitment to democracy and free markets has waxed and waned with his political fortunes.
110 Some of his ideas about democracy are entirely his own.
111 The government has pledged to give the promotion of democracy higher priority.
112 They did not dare to challenge the sacred cow of parliamentary democracy.
113 America helped the rebels in return for their promise to support democracy.
114 Freedom of speech is one of the governing principles in a democracy.
115 The whole concept of democracy, she claimed[sentencedict.com],[sentencedict.com/democracy.html] was utterly foreign to the present government.
116 The president of the new democracy is actually a former Communist.
117 Sweden is often held up as an example of a successful social democracy.
118 The whole idea of democracy was something strange and new to most people.
119 The main task of the new government will be to steer the country towards democracy.
120 The early 1990s saw the spread of democracy in Eastern Europe.
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