household franchise

noun

: the right of voting in parliamentary and other elections in Great Britain restricted before 1918 to householders

Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for household franchise

• contextualize
• industrialize
• materialise
• materialize
• memorialize
• microenterprise
• overemphasize
• particularize
• revolutionise
• revolutionize
• actualize
• antagonize