All 6 Uses
constituent
in
The Circle
(Edited)
- My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.
p. 210.2 *constituents = people (represented by me)
- The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding?
p. 241.3constituents = people represented by them
- Their constituents wondered what they were hiding, and their electoral doom was all but assured.
p. 242.1
- Now, with 90 percent of Washington transparent, and the remaining 10 percent wilting under the suspicion of their colleagues and constituents, the question beat down on them like an angry sun: What are you hiding?
p. 313.6
- She stayed at CE until five, when she showed her watchers the newest Clarification, the governor of Arizona, and enjoyed the surprise transparency of the governor's entire staff—something that many officials were doing, to ensure to their constituents that deals were not being done, in darkness, outside the light of the clear leader.
p. 333.7
- The fourth question was preceded by a sober instruction: Imagine the White House wanted the unfiltered opinion of its constituents.
p. 407.5constituents = people represented by the President
Definitions:
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(1)
(constituent as in: constituents from her district) someone represented by a politician
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(2)
(constituent as in: constituents of the mixture) a part of something
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, in grammar, "constituent" is used to reference a word, phrase, or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction.
Much more rarely, "a constituent body" has the power to write or amend a constitution.