constituency

[ UK /kənstˈɪtjuːənsi/ ]
[ US /kənˈstɪtʃuənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the body of voters who elect a representative for their area
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How To Use constituency In A Sentence

  • Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
  • He was not going to conduct his presidency through interest groups, by balancing one constituency against another and engaging in the customary horse-trading on the Hill. The Good Fight
  • Although Kilmarnock is an industrial area, there is a large rural area in the constituency in the heart of Ayrshire.
  • Many members of the Dail Eireann spend an excessive amount of time and effort in the constituency, but this has been more related to Irish political culture than the electoral system.
  • Meanwhile there is increasing acceptance that the task of representing a constituency can fairly be considered to constitute a full-time job.
  • But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
  • He wasn't terribly popular in our part of the constituency and rumours, some of which have hardened into allegations, abounded.
  • But pro-choicers have a built-in constituency too: the millions and millions of women who have had abortions.
  • He should listen to the people of this constituency and he has got a lot to listen to. Times, Sunday Times
  • But on thinking it over, he decided it seemed less than hopeful to represent a constituency that deserved to be slimmed out of existence. POLITICAL SUICIDE
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