"psephocracy" meaning in Anglais

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en grec ancien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais suffixés avec -cracy",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Noms communs en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
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      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "psephocrat"
    },
    {
      "word": "psephocratic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(1966) Du grec ancien ψῆφος, psēphos (« petite pierre ») avec le suffixe -cracy. Le sens provient de l’ancienne méthode athénienne de vote où l’on mettait une petite pierre dans une boîte de scrutin."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "psephocracies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais de la politique",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              159,
              170
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "New Statesman, 15 avril 1966",
          "text": "How then did Britain […] become a democracy? […] It never did... What we do have is representative government, or the rule of the ballot-box, or (in one word) psephocracy."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Antony Jay, Management and Machiavelli: An Inquiry into the Politics of Corporate Life, 1967",
          "text": "Then, on the principle of no taxation without representation, democracy becomes psephocracy, and those who contribute the money demand the right to vote on the method of spending it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Démocratie représentative, gouvernement élu par un vote, par opposition à la démocratie directe."
      ],
      "id": "fr-psephocracy-en-noun-99mpjBuw",
      "topics": [
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "representative democracy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "psephocracy"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en grec ancien",
    "Mots en anglais suffixés avec -cracy",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "psephocrat"
    },
    {
      "word": "psephocratic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(1966) Du grec ancien ψῆφος, psēphos (« petite pierre ») avec le suffixe -cracy. Le sens provient de l’ancienne méthode athénienne de vote où l’on mettait une petite pierre dans une boîte de scrutin."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "psephocracies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Lexique en anglais de la politique"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              159,
              170
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "New Statesman, 15 avril 1966",
          "text": "How then did Britain […] become a democracy? […] It never did... What we do have is representative government, or the rule of the ballot-box, or (in one word) psephocracy."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              80,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Antony Jay, Management and Machiavelli: An Inquiry into the Politics of Corporate Life, 1967",
          "text": "Then, on the principle of no taxation without representation, democracy becomes psephocracy, and those who contribute the money demand the right to vote on the method of spending it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Démocratie représentative, gouvernement élu par un vote, par opposition à la démocratie directe."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "representative democracy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "psephocracy"
}