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Meanings of nomination borough in English

Russian
гнилые местечки
Spanish
rotten borough
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British constituency dominated by a single proprietor.

        гнилые местечки
        Synonyms
        Examples for "rotten borough"
        Examples for "rotten borough"
        1
        A real-life rotten borough was Old Sarum in Wiltshire, which contained seven voters.
        The Guardian
        2
        The average price of a seat in Parliament was £5000 for a so-called ' rotten borough.'
        Queen Victoria
        3
        Lord Verney, for a seat in the privy council, was induced to give him a " rotten borough."
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
        4
        The same rotten borough vote took Gordon Brown to No 10: failing to fight for it did him no good.
        The Guardian
        5
        In 1809 he became of age, and entered parliament for a rotten borough openly bought for him by his father.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        1
        Thereafter, it was storekeeper Lincoln's pocket borough; its ruffians were his body-guard.
        Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
        2
        The Flats, mind you; our own little pocket borough of the Flats!
        The Henchman
        3
        O'Donnell says it probably originated in that Banagher was a pocket borough notorious for its parliamentary corruption.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Sir Robert Peel began in the pocket borough of Cashel in 1809, a coming-of-age present from his mill-owning father.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Fox first entered Parliament for the pocket borough of Midhurst, and Sir George Trevelyan has described how it took place.
        The Rise of the Democracy
        Usage of nomination borough in English
        1
        You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfranchise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        2
        Such towns were called "rotten boroughs," "pocket boroughs," " nomination boroughs."
        A Brief History of the United States
        3
        Under the old parliamentary system, he had the greatest number of nomination boroughs possessed by any Whig noble.
        Endymion
        4
        Take any one of those nomination boroughs, the patrons of which have conscientiously endeavoured to send fit men into this House.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        Translations for nomination borough