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GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("grandfather clause" is a kind of...):
exemption; freedom (immunity from an obligation or duty)
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