undemocratize en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + democratize.
Meanings
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To make not democratic, or less democratic
But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master.
1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page 73:CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster.
2004 September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, “Phi Delta Kappan”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government.
1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page 149:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| undemocratizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| undemocratized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| undemocratized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| undemocratise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| undemocratizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
de entdemokratisieren (to reduce democracy) · pt desdemocratizar (to reduce democracy)