0 to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group
1 to take away a person’s right to vote
For the edification of the possible reader who is entirely uninformed, it may be explained that women are not entirely disenfranchised in the United States.
Both the refugees and those who became politically disenfranchised joined the ranks of stateless persons.
If certain combinations of votes were rejected as inadmissible, they would be effectively disenfranchised.
As may be seen on the personnel chart, the artist is placed there in a strange position, seemingly disenfranchised of the operating structure.
Indeed, the political empowerment of previously disenfranchised groups makes them a more permanent and potent force leaning against reversal.
One objection is that presumed consent takes away individual autonomy and that people will be disenfranchised from their own bodies.
In this view, institutions may empower or disenfranchise specific interests.
First, it provides one instance of how issues usually restricted to the domestic sphere could produce new opportunities for the politically disenfranchised.
