Apr 15, 2000 06:08
24 yrs ago
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English term
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disenfranchised communities
English
Bus/Financial
Wireless telecommunication is particularly appealing in rural areas of Mexico, where this Company has ignored the opportunities to bring services to the disenfranchised communities, for cost reasons
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| 4 +2 | denied the right of consumer choice |
Robert Donahue (X)
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denied the right of consumer choice
Disenfranchised means denied the right to vote. Here it means that these people were denied the right of consumer choice. In other words, they were stuck with crappy phone service because there was only one "Company" providing it.
deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.1
is to have a right or privilege taken away.
www.justice.gov.ab.ca/public_education/vocabulary.aspx
deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn2.1
is to have a right or privilege taken away.
www.justice.gov.ab.ca/public_education/vocabulary.aspx
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