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# constituency

«constituency» in Mova's school dictionary: **An area of a country whose voters elect one or more…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a constituency, constituencies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (politics, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia) An area of a country whose voters elect one or more members to parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#m1)

2) The people who live and vote in such an area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#m2)

3) A group of people who support someone or whose interests someone represents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and politics lessons it explains how MPs are elected in the UK: each constituency elects one MP. In news at election time it is used a lot. Phrases: "my constituency", "a marginal constituency", "constituency MP".

### examples

- There are 650 constituencies in the UK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#x1)
- Our constituency elected a new MP. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#x2)
- The MP held a meeting for people in her constituency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#x3)
- Ireland's constituencies elect several members each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#x4)
- He visits his constituency every weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/#x5)

### note

Plural: constituencies. In the USA, the area is usually called a "district". Also related: "constituent" (a voter in a constituency).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «constituency» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/constituency/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.