Usually means: Deprivation of the right to vote.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word disfranchisement:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. disfranchisement: Merriam-Webster
  2. disfranchisement: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disfranchisement: Vocabulary.com
  4. Disfranchisement, disfranchisement: Wordnik
  5. disfranchisement: Wiktionary
  6. disfranchisement: Dictionary.com
  7. Disfranchisement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Disfranchisement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. disfranchisement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. disfranchisement: Rhymezone
  11. Disfranchisement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. disfranchisement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. disfranchisement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. disfranchisement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Disfranchisement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. disfranchisement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. disfranchisement: Legal dictionary

(Note: See disfranchise as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disfranchisement)

▸ noun:  The act of disfranchising.
▸ noun:  The deprivation of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.

Similar:
disfranchiser, disenfranchiser, disenfranchisement, disenthronement, disqualification, dispossession, disownment, unfrocking, deprivation, disenchantment, more...

Opposite:
enfranchisement, empowerment, enfranchising

Types:
poll tax, grandfather clause, white primary, literacy test, gerrymandering, misinformation, more...

Phrases:
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era, more...

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Similar:
disfranchiser, disenfranchiser, disenfranchisement, disenthronement, disqualification, dispossession, disownment, unfrocking, deprivation, disenchantment, more...

Opposite:
enfranchisement, empowerment, enfranchising

Types:
poll tax, grandfather clause, white primary, literacy test, gerrymandering, misinformation, more...

Phrases:
Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era, more...



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