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two-party system

[ too-pahr-tee ]

noun

, Government.
  1. a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.


two-party system

noun

  1. a condition or system in which two major parties dominate a political unit


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Word History and Origins

Origin of two-party system1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

“The two-party system in Massachusetts is broken,” Johnson told the Boston Globe when he announced the PAC.

The first is that, to a large degree, race is already baked in to the two-party system.

Ours has been, until fairly recently, a vibrant two-party system.

What can I go about doing to change away from the destructive two-party system that currently dominates politics?

Another reason is they are just exasperated by the two-party system.

And under a two-party system, as ours is probably bound to remain, the independent voter usually holds the balance of power.

So far as the two-party system is concerned, what effect does it have when there are no differences between the two parties?

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