Synonyms:
right_to_vote, vote, suffrage
Meaning: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920"
Usage examples
The Suffrage Committee in the House was appointed.
At least a third of each speech was devoted to suffrage.
The new Woman's Party had declared suffrage a national political issue.
As much literature was used on suffrage as on peace in the suffrage states.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Vice Chairman of the New York Suffrage Party, said:
The Democratic Party made its suffrage plank specific against action by Congress.
The subject of the creation of a committee on suffrage was almost entirely forgotten.
To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.
Some indirectly and many, inadvertently, however, paid eloquent tribute to the suffrage picket.
Protected by the President's plank, the Democratic Congress continued to block national suffrage.