proportional representation

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (abbreviation PR) a system that gives each party in an election a number of seats in relation to the number of votes its candidates receive compareFIRST-PAST-THE-POST

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proportional representationEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary proportional representationEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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prophet prophetess prophetic prophylactic propinquity propitiate propitiatory propitious proponent proportion proportional

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