democracy
/dɪˈmɑk·rə·si/ n [C/U] politics & governmentDefinition
› the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves › A democracy is a country in which power is held by elected representatives.
(Definition of democracy n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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