Speakur

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pocket borough

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English

Syllables
pock-et bor-ough
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the burgage tenements (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.

Inflected Forms

pocket boroughs (plural)

Phrases

rotten borough

Frequently Paired Words

rotten borough

Synonyms

close borough

Rhymes With

thorough borough rotten borough burgh royal burgh kookaburra burra

Questions

What does pocket borough mean?
A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the burgage tenements (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.

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