enfranchisement n

1. (uncountable) The action of enfranchising (“admitting to a privilege; releasing from legal liability; setting free”); also, the fact or state of being enfranchised; (countable) an instance of this.
   1. (uncountable) Release from imprisonment, political oppression, or slavery; emancipation, liberation; (countable) an instance of this.
   2. (figurative, uncountable) The action of freeing or releasing; freeing, liberation, release; (countable) an instance of this.
   3. (often politics, uncountable) The granting of privileges; (countable) an instance of this.
      1. The granting of citizenship or political rights (especially the right to vote) to a person.
      2. The granting of membership of a corporation, municipality, etc., to a person.
      3. The granting of privileges, especially the right to be represented in a legislature, to a city or town.
   4. (England and Wales, property law, historical, uncountable) The conversion of a copyhold or leasehold estate into a freehold estate; (countable) an instance of this.

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