suffrage
noun/ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/
Frequency rank: #8,801 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
the right to vote in political elections.
Example sentence
Women fought for decades before winning suffrage in national elections.
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