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61Plural Consensus — Concertación Plural Leader Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Founded 2006 Headquarters Buenos Aires, Argentina Ideology …
62plural societies — Societies which are divided into different linguistic, ethnic, religious, or racial groups and communities. Arguably, this description could apply to almost any society , with the result that the term is sometimes (unhelpfully) treated as… …
63Plural Society — Term that describes social and economic institutions under colonial rule, first used by J. S. Furnivall, a retired member of the Indian Civil Service who served for a long time in Burma and was critical of the government s laissez faire… …
64plural form — noun the form of a word that is used to denote more than one • Syn: ↑plural • Ant: ↑singular (for: ↑plural) • Members of this Usage Domain: ↑relation, ↑ …
65Plural district — A plural district is a term used to describe a district in the United States House of Representatives that was represented by more than one member. States using this method elected multiple members from some of their geographically defined… …
66plural wife — noun : a wife in a plural marriage; especially : a wife in unlawful polygamy who is not the lawful one * * * plural wife, any one of the wives of a polygamist, or in a plural marriage …
67Plural society — A plural society is defined by Fredrik Barth as a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups, and the ecological specialization (i.e., use of different environmental resources by each ethnic group). The… …
68plural, the — plu|ral, the [ plurəl ] noun LINGUISTICS a word or form used for referring to more than one person or thing. For example students is the plural of student, and mice is the plural of mouse …
69Plural Cities — Cities in which there is no single majority ethnic group. Addressing the Royal Commonwealth Society in January 2008, Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, cited “the phenomenon of the plural city – cities in which no …
70plural vote — noun : the casting of more than one vote or the right of casting more than one vote or of voting in more than one constituency * * * plural vote noun The power of voting in more than one constituency, or more than once in one • • • Main Entry:… …
