[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

enfranchisement \enfran"chisement\, n.
   1. releasing from slavery or custody. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic;
      investiture with the privileges of free citizens.
      1913 webster

   enfranchisement of copyhold eng. law, the conversion of a
      copyhold estate into a freehold. --mozley  w.
      1913 webster
see also:
enfranchisement of copyhold 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

enfranchisement
     n 1: freedom from political subjugation or servitude
     2: a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group
        by a government especially the rights of citizenship and
        the right to vote syn: franchise
     3: the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on syn: certification
        ant: disenfranchisement
see also:
franchise certification disenfranchisement 

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