undemocratize
verbEtymology From un- + democratize.
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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:
- because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government.1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page 149:
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- 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):
- Derived terms
- undemocratization
- Related terms
- democratize