rotten borough

Etymology


From, because such boroughs were regarded as having “decayed” due to their voters moving away to other places.

Noun

 * 1)  A parliamentary borough that was represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly that they were largely controlled by the main landowner; such boroughs were abolished in the 19th century.
 * 2)  A parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation.
 * 1)  A parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation.

Translations

 * Basque: burgu usteldu
 * Bulgarian: гнил район
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腐敗選區
 * Finnish: lahonnut kauppala
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Hebrew: מחוז רקוב ומחוז כיס
 * Italian: borgo putrido
 * Japanese: 腐敗選挙区
 * Macedonian: гнил ре́он
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: råtten valgkrets, lommevalgkrets
 * Polish: zgniłe miasteczko
 * Russian: гнило́е месте́чко
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: burgo podrido
 * Ukrainian: