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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121 I thought we were supposed to be living in a democracy.
122 By that time, democracy had become securely established in Spain.
123 The new leader wants his country to be seen as a mature democracy.
124 He was making all the right noises about multi-party democracy and human rights.
125 The party is trying to give the impression that it alone stands for democracy.
126 Democracy itself is on trial as the country prepares for its first free elections.
127 The lack of democracy and equality impelled the oppressed to fight for independence.
128 The only way to preserve democracy is to raise hell about its shortcomings.
129 There cannot be true democracy without reform of the electoral system.
130 They were discussing the best way to foster democracy and prosperity in the former communist countries.
131 The scandal is damning evidence of the government's contempt for democracy.
132 A referendum is alien to the party's concept of democracy.
133 This election has profound implications for the future of U.S. democracy.
134 In the course[sentencedict.com/democracy.html], we will examine how and why Spain became a democracy in 1931.
135 Political hopes for a swift and smooth transition to democracy have been dashed.
136 Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
137 The country seems to have been following a zigzag course between democracy and dictatorship.
138 The former prisoner of conscience was elected president of the new democracy.
139 Permissiveness and democracy go together.
140 So goes the classical argument against pure democracy.
141 The consistently revolutionary wing of Social Democracy, the Bolsheviks[sentencedict.com], became the authentic vanguard of the proletariat.
142 In short, though not yet fully attained, political democracy had become respectable, and Socialism had become arguable.
143 She even adopts uncritically an apolitical, humanist version of psychological democracy.
144 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. Doug Larson 
145 But the Party continues to flout its own rules and the basic principles of parliamentary democracy.
146 Sadly, his tenure has been characterised, too, by an affront to the House and to our democracy.
147 This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
148 Now, in a healthy exercise of democracy and the idea bazaar, the tower of economic doctrine is quivering.
149 The Church and democracy had fought a war for temporal power, the Church had lost, and the antagonism lingered.
150 A persuasive argument that democracy can and should be based on active and extensive participation by the citizenry.
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