Timeline for What's the meaning of "constituency" here？
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 8:54 | comment | added | Stuart F | It seems to be a confusion of consistency with either constitution or constituent, meaning the quality of what constitutes something (as opposed to simply identifying the things that constitute something). Not even in Cambridge dictionary online, despite being in another Cambridge book, and hasn't made the OED - although Oxford have not fully updated their entry for "constituency" since 1893. | |
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| Jun 8, 2023 at 0:39 | history | edited | ForOU | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2023 at 20:10 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 18:43 | comment | added | gotube♦ | It's likely linguistics jargon, but I'm not familiar with it. "Constituents" would at least make some sense there. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 15:13 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | In what context? "Constituency," AFAIK, is describing the membership or parts of something, e.g., the voters who elect the people in a district. Does the constituency change over time? | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 1:34 | history | asked | ForOU | CC BY-SA 4.0 |