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Pocket Borough

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Noun

1. pocket borough

a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family

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Pocket Borough

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noun
(before the Reform Act of 1832) an English borough constituency controlled by one person or family who owned the land
Compare rotten borough

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Pocket Borough

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in Great Britain before 1832, a borough whose representation in Parliament was controlled by one family or person

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Pocket Borough

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n.
A borough in England, before the parliamentary reform of 1832, whose representation was controlled by a single person or family.

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