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ROTTEN BOROUGH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rotten borough mean?
• ROTTEN BOROUGH (noun)
The noun ROTTEN BOROUGH has 1 sense:
1. an English parliamentary constituency with few electors
Familiarity information: ROTTEN BOROUGH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An English parliamentary constituency with few electors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rotten borough" is a kind of...):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
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