Word meaning -
1. A direct vote of the qualified voters of a country/region on an important public issue
2. The vote by which the people of a political unit determine autonomy or affiliation with another country.
Usage examples -
- Senior Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani has asked India to fulfil its commitment to hold a plebiscite in occupied Kashmir, as part of the UN resolution on the vexed issue, and allow the people to decide their fate.
- Plebiscite will decide smoking issue.
- Rebel leader denies nodding to plebiscite.
Pakistan in favor of plebiscite in Kashmir
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Plebs
In ancient Rome population was split into three classes -
Plebs (lower class)
Equites (Middle Class)
Patricians (Nobility)
The term plebs is used to refer to the common people (the populace) in an informal way.
The use if this word considered a bit offensive.
Usage examples -
- Hereditary nobility may be one of the more preposterous notions humanity has come up with, yet the less real-world power royalty wields, the more deeply appealing we plebs find it—not as a mechanism of practical politics, but as a collective dream, a fairy tale brought to life. And the most resonant dream, as countless fairy tales show, is the one about the imperiled princess.
- I'd rather be boiling my willy in vinegar than stand here with you thick plebs.
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