Constituent vs Constituency - What's the difference?
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being a part, or component of a whole
* Dryden
authorized to make a constitution
* Junius
a part, or component of a whole
* Tyndall
The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
* Sir M. Hale
A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
* Macaulay
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(legal) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
(grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
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(British) A district represented by one or more elected officials.
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The voters within such a district.
An interest group or fan base.
Constituency is a related term of constituent.
As nouns the difference between constituent and constituency
is that constituent is a part, or component of a whole while constituency is (British) A district represented by one or more elected officials.As an adjective constituent
is being a part, or component of a whole.constituent
English
Adjective
(-)- Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
- A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
Noun
(en noun)- We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
- Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
- To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .
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- (Burrill)
- Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase'' constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive 's inflection in English without saying that it's a ''Noun Phrase inflection.
See also
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English
(wikipedia constituency)Noun
(constituencies)- John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency .
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