transcription, транскрипция: [ di-ˈmä-krə-sē ]
noun
( plural -cies )
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos + -kratia -cracy
Date: 1576
1.
a. : government by the people ; especially : rule of the majority
b. : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2. : a political unit that has a democratic government
3. capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the United States
from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy — C. M. Roberts
4. : the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority
5. : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges