0 the fact of giving a person or group of people the right to vote in elections:
1 the right to buy the freehold (= legal ownership and control for an unlimited time) of a property instead of renting it leasehold (= for an agreed, limited period of time):
Blocks with 10% commercial property are at present barred from enfranchisement.
2 the fact of giving voting rights to people who own non-voting shares in a company:
Women's immense contribution during the war led directly to their enfranchisement.
Social transformation was brought about by the enfranchisement of working populations.
Improvements in voter registration systems can help ensure the enfranchisement of eligible citizens.
For those born after 1945, whose first election was 1970, length of enfranchisement is simply age minus 18.
In the age of mass enfranchisement, this probably means campaigns must be able to access the mass media either directly (advertisements) or indirectly (news coverage).
Political liberalization and the gradual enfranchisement of colonial populations during this period led colonial governments to reconceptualize their ethnic subjects as national citizens.
At a second and more profound level this technical enfranchisement of our desires also made possible new forms of sympathy and engagement.
As discussed, the classic party identification model assumes that voters born prior to mass enfranchisement will be less strongly partisan compared to people born later.
