pocket borough
短语口袋选区（被一人或一家族所操纵的国会议员选区）
词形变化
pocket boroughs
复数
pocket boroughs
释义与例句
n.
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1.
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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