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con·stit·u·en·cy
 constituency
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
constituencies |
| definition 1: |
the body of voters from a district represented by an elected official.
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| definition 2: |
the district represented by such an official.
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| related words: |
district |
adjective + (n.)constituency
alienating,
broad,
competing,
conflicting,
congressional,
conservative,
crucial,
democratic,
different,
distinct,
diverse,
domestic,
electoral,
ethnic,
external,
functional,
fundamentalist,
geographical,
growing,
immigrant,
important,
influential,
internal,
key,
liberal,
loyal,
middle-class,
multiple,
narrow,
nationwide,
natural,
organized,
parliamentary,
particular,
political,
powerful,
primary,
regional,
relevant,
respective,
rural,
strategic,
strong,
traditional,
tribal,
urban,
various,
vocal,
wider,
working-class
[See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)constituency
alienate, appeal, broaden, build, concern, create, elect, exclude, key, mobilize, pander, persuade, please, represent, satisfy, serve, shape, target
(n.)constituency
+ verb
accommodate, appease, compose, court, cultivate, demand, divide, favor, grant, oppose, organize
noun + (n.)constituency
activist, alliance, congressmen, core, favor, grassroots, interest, minority, party, politician, preference, representation, representative, support, swing, voter, voting
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The word constituency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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