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Alternative forms

• undemocratise (Commonwealth)

Verb

undemocratize ‎(third-person singular simple present undemocratizes, present participle undemocratizing, simple past and past participle undemocratized)

1. To make not democratic, or less democratic
   • 1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page 73:

     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.

   • 1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page 149:

     because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government.

   • 2004 September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, “Phi Delta Kappan”, in (Please provide the title of the work):

     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.

Derived terms

• undemocratization

Related terms

• democratize

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