0 present participle of disenfranchise
1 to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group
The second reason is purely practical and turns on the possibility of disenfranchising certain classes of trustee.
For whatever reason, they have not done so, and they seem relaxed about disenfranchising individuals.
It seems that we are now about to repeat that policy, this time disenfranchising our own citizens.
You are dealing with a question which was disenfranchising some 100,000 persons.
First, it would not be wholly right to regard what we are doing as "disenfranchising" these people.
To have omitted it would, in their view, have been tantamont to disenfranchising a considerable percentage of the people.
We felt that if we did exclude it, we should, in effect, be disenfranchising a large number of electors.
My reply is that he has been chosen at the cost of disenfranchising the whole of his constituency.
