Alternative letter-case form of Christian Democracy.

(politics, figuratively) The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending democratic forms of government.

Alternative form of arsenal of democracy

(politics, US, Canada) The influence of money on politics and on government / (economics, US, Canada) The ability of consumers to influence the economy and business decisions by their spending

A political ideology incorporating traditional family and church values alongside progressive values, such as welfare. It is closely linked with Roman Catholicism and its philosophy of economic and social justice.

(Australia, informal) One of the sausages cooked and eaten as part of the Australian tradition of holding a fundraising sausage sizzle at polling places on the day of an election.

plural of democracy sausage

(euphemistic, politics) An antisocialist government that allows suffrage but places sovereignty in the army.

(politics) A theoretical concept within Marxism-Leninism and a form of government in communist states which developed after World War II and in theory allowed for a multi-class, multi-party democracy on the pathway to socialism, rather than a pure proletarian dictatorship.

(physics) The idea that there is no real distinction between composite and elementary particles.