constituent
IPA: kʌnstˈɪtʃuʌnt
noun
- A part, or component of a whole
- A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs
- A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
- A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
- (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
- (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause
adjective
- being a part, or component of a whole
- constitutive or constituting; (politics) authorized to make a constitution
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Examples of "constituent" in Sentences
- The other constituent is the predicate.
- Ditto the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.
- This Stupak constituent is happy with him and hope he stays.
- Finally, the last element of a cleft is the cleft constituent.
- Constituent quarks are a figment of the theorists imagination.
- In this context, it is also a constituent of the field of Agronomy.
- Her constituent is wearing her dead sisters dentures - nt - hickorystick
- _constituent_ parts of that body; in decomposing it, therefore, we separate its constituent parts.
- You can see the DNC always has to drum up business for their main constituent the scum bag lawyers.
- If a constituent is ready to give anything to their elected officials, they need to be ready to receive anything back from them.
- But time after time, Congressional offices tell us that a personal letter from a constituent is the most powerful form of communication and carries the greatest impact.
- Mr. Reich defended his use of the word constituent Friday, saying it was a word he had used often as a congressional aide earlier in his career and did not denote "any sort of sinister relationship."
- But the philosopher who asks whether the Taj has “whiteness” as a constituent and the philosopher who supposes that the Taj does have this property-constituent and asks, “What is the nature of this relation ˜constituent of™ that ˜whiteness™ bears to the Taj?” are asking questions about its ontological structure.)
- I know Republicans think Americans in general are stupid as their average constituent is dumber than a box of rocks, but it is becoming very apparent to the majority of Americans that the Empress hath no clothes (or brains for that matter) and once again to the Republicans undoing, a thinking America sees they have no leadership nor direction and any Bozo from the local circus can take the lead spot at any time.