undemocratize
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- undemocratise (Commonwealth)
Etymology
[edit]From un- + democratize.
Verb
[edit]undemocratize (third-person singular simple present undemocratizes, present participle undemocratizing, simple past and past participle undemocratized)
- To make not democratic, or less democratic
- 1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page 73:
- But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master.
- 1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page 149:
- because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government.
- 2004 September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, “Phi Delta Kappan”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to reduce democracy
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