disenfranchised

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Looks like there are going to be 900 disenfranchised sysadmins out in the wild.... I wonder what information they'll have...

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deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"

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adjective

deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disenfranchised.

adjective

deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"

See also: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless

Example sentences

Looks like there are going to be 900 disenfranchised sysadmins out in the wild.... I wonder what information they'll have...

I honestly have no idea, but my instinct is that it's coming from people who are already disenfranchised.

But I find the idea of lying to the disenfranchised so they can feel better about themselves condescending.

He's counting on the Republicans selecting someone crazy enough to bring out his disenfranchised base, and it might just happen.

" Liberals and conservatives both want to help disenfranchised people, but, at least among those with political power, language can be the dividing line.

Thereby maximizing the number of people enfranchised and minimizing the number disenfranchised.

Wishing to grab extraordinary amounts of power and oversight over a largely disenfranchised populace then I would say it has been remarkably successful.

This smells to me like a hastily conjured rationalization for a series of attention-seeking acts wrought by a small group of disenfranchised industry workers who have something to say, but they're just not articulate enough to voice it so they blow shit up instead.

I am an avid reader of the ES-Discuss mailing list and I have seen these "disenfranchised" developers this article is talking about, who blunder into the list with their fabulous ideas without lurking first, or searching the mailing list archives or bug databases, or the wiki.

This particular individual even goes so far to say that "the biggest problem" is the alleged misuse of labels related to racism or sexism, as if this could somehow be worse that the discrimination the disenfranchised experience on a day-to-day basis.

Nyellin wrote:> We also have our warts...But you didn't mention the elephant in the room in your comment, which is pretty strange:Israel also has run a 40+ year occupation that denies non-Jewish residents of rights and freedoms while subsidizing Jewish settlements in and around the disenfranchised non-Jewish population.

A few years ago I looked at the growth of iOS and truly feared that humanity was headed for a very different future - one where the poor were separated and disenfranchised by their inability to afford access to the dominant mobile platform and the rich were slavishly bound to the constraints of a locked down and tightly controlled ecosystem where all decisions made would be in the interest of the largest company on earth.