Democratically

Definition: Democratically

Democratically

Adverb

1. In a democratic manner; based on democratic principles; "it was decided democratically"; "democratically elected government".

Date "democratically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Antonym: undemocratically (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Democratically

English words defined with "democratically": Finnbogadottir ♦ Mandela ♦ Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ♦ Vigdis Finnbogadottir. (references)

Specialty definitions using "democratically": co-operative ♦ interferencia terrestre. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	My one and only noble point may be found in my bodily appendage, whom I will consult democratically as he is rather whimsical. (Marquis; writing credit: Roland Topor; Henri Xhonneux)
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Author	Quotation
William L. Shirer	Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Prime Minister Hans Modrow headed a caretaker government which shared power with the new, democratically oriented parties. (references)
		There are no democratically elected institutions, and citizens do not have the right to change their government or to form political parties. (references)
Civil Liberties	Equatorial Guinea	In April 1999, shortly before a national symposium on press liberty was scheduled, the Minister of the Interior ordered the removal of the democratically elected president of ASOPGE, Manual Nze Nzogo, even though the ASOPGE was a legally recognized association. (references)
Economic History	Sierra Leone	Type: Republic with a democratically elected President and Parliament. (references)
	Gambia, The	The AFPRC deposed the democratically elected government of Sir Dawda Jawara. (references)
Indigenous People	Australia	In March 2000, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed serious concern that the Government's Native Title amendments would allow the states and territories to pass legislation containing provisions "reducing further the protection of native title claimants." The CERD declared "unsatisfactory" the Government's response to concerns about the Native Title regime expressed in 1999. The Government responded later that year that the laws were passed after full debate in a democratically elected legislature and that the states have a sovereign right to determine land use policy. (references)
Minorities	Burundi	Tutsis claim to have been the targets of genocide carried out in 1993 by Hutus angered by the assassination of democratically elected Hutu president Ndadaye. (references)
	Macedonia	The Framework Agreement stipulates that: "the local authorities will decide democratically on the use [of other minority languages] in public bodies." Ethnic Macedonians held approximately 85 percent of civil service posts; ethnic Albanians held approximately 10 percent; and other minorities held approximately 5 percent. (references)
Political Economy	Bulgaria	Bulgaria is a parliamentary republic ruled by a democratically elected government. (references)
	Thailand	Real power, however, lies in the hands of a democratically elected government led by a Prime Minister. (references)
	Dominica	The Dominica Police--the only security force--is controlled by and responsive to the democratically elected Government. (references)
Political Rights	Eritrea	The PFDJ still has not fulfilled the ambitious program that it initially outlined for a transition to a democratically elected government by 1997. Elections, originally scheduled for 1997, never have been held. (references)
	Canada	A significant body of opinion in the province of Quebec (represented by the party that governs the province) continues to maintain that Quebec has the right to withdraw from the Confederation if that decision proves to be the democratically expressed will of the residents of Quebec. (references)
	Denmark	The territories of Greenland (whose population is primarily Inuit) and the Faroe Islands (whose inhabitants have their own Norse language) have democratically elected home rule governments whose powers encompass all matters except foreign affairs, monetary affairs, and national security. (references)
Worker Rights	Czech Republic	The CMKOS is a democratically oriented, republic-wide umbrella organization for branch unions. (references)
	Austria	The leaderships of the Chamber of Labor, the Chamber of Commerce, and the OGB are elected democratically. (references)
	Zambia	The ZCTU is operated democratically and, like its constituent unions, is independent of any political party and the Government. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	During this past year, Peru inaugurated a democratically elected government.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Democratically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Democratically" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	162	24,580

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "democratically": democratically-accountable, democratically-chosen, democratically-constructed, democratically-determined, democratically-elected, democratically-run, democratically-structured.
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Language		Translations for "democratically"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		民主 (Democracies, Democracy, Democratic, Democratical). (various references)

German		demokratisches. (various references)

Korean		민주주의� �으로. (various references)

Pig Latin		emocraticallyday

Romanian		democratic (democratic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "democratically": undemocratically. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "democratically" (pronounced de'mukra"tiklē)
7	-r a" t i k l ē	erratically.
6	-a" t i k l ē	automatically, diplomatically, dogmatically, dramatically, ecstatically, emphatically, systematically, thematically, undiplomatically.
5	-t i k l ē	acoustically, aesthetically, alphabetically, analytically, apologetically, artistically, authentically, characteristically, cosmetically, domestically, drastically, energetically, enthusiastically, euphemistically, fantastically, genetically, geopolitically, hypothetically, idiotically, linguistically, logistically, optically, phonetically, poetically, realistically, sarcastically, stylistically, synthetically, uncharacteristically, unrealistically, vertically.
4	-i k l ē	academically, aerobically, aerodynamically, algebraically, angelically, astronomically, basically, biologically, categorically, chronologically, classically, demographically, ecologically, economically, ethnically, forensically, generically, geometrically, graphically, heroically, hysterically, ideologically, ironically, logically, lyrically, mechanically, metaphorically, microscopically, musically, numerically, organically, pathologically, physiologically, prolifically, psychologically, publically, publicly, radically, rhetorically, rhythmically, specifically, sporadically, stoically, strategically, symmetrically, systemically, terrifically, theologically, tragically, volcanically.
3	-k l ē	alchemically, anatomically, athletically, biweekly, blankly, briskly, brusquely, chemically, darkly, frankly, grotesquely, likely, medically, meekly, newsweekly, obliquely, paradoxically, practically, prickly, quickly, sickly, sleekly, slickly, sparkly, starkly, thickly, typically, uniquely, unlikely, weakly, weekly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-l-m-o-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: comedically, declamatory, maladroitly, maledictory.
	-4 letters: acclimated, acrylamide, allometric, arctically, atomically, caracolled, collimated, cortically, democratic, erotically, malolactic, materially, metrically, mortadella, myocardial.
	-5 letters: acclaimed, acclaimer, acclimate, admiralty, aleatoric, aliteracy, allocated, allometry, amorality, armadillo, caracoled, catcalled, collimate, comically, comradely, cordately, cordially, cyclamate, cycloidal, cyclorama, decimally, democracy, dialectal, diametral, macrocyte, maladroit, maritally, martially, mediatory, medically, metalloid, microcyte.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-i-l-l-m-o-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: undemocratically.
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