Definition of "unenfranchised" [unenfranchised]

• Not enfranchised; unfree. (adjective)

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• "Among the unenfranchised are the owners of millions of dollars worth of property, college presidents and college graduates, thousands of teachers in universities, colleges and public schools, physicians, lawyers, dentists, journalists, heads of businesses, representatives of every trade and occupation and thousands of the nation's homekeepers."
• "Until the ground-breaking general election television debates, many unenfranchised schoolkids showed virtually no interest in politics."
• "Yet even after this legislation, less than 60% of the men in the country had the vote, with the unenfranchised invariably being concentrated amongst the poor, including the unemployed."