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Definition of Pocket borough
1. Noun. A sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Borough
Literary usage of Pocket borough
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"See POCKET-BOROUGH, subs. phr. (political). — A constituency in which votes are
controlled by one man : theoretically, since the Reform Act of 1832, ..."
2. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1901)
"It pointed to the number of eminent men who had been enabled to begin public life
very early by means of a nomination for some pocket-borough, or who, ..."
3. A history of our own times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the by Justin McCarthy (1880)
"It pointed to the number of eminent men who had been enabled to begin public life
very early by means of a nomination for some pocket-borough, or who having ..."
4. Speeches of the Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill, M. P., 1880-1888 by Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill (1889)
"... the pocket borough of Lord Cork, a Whig nobleman, with less than 10000
inhabitants; that they should leave the Whig borough of Tiverton, in Devonshire, ..."
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