GRANDFATHER CLAUSE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy
   • used to enfranchise illiterate whites in US south after the Civil War
   Hypernyms(s) grandfather clause is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • exemption (what does exemption mean?)
   • freedom (what does freedom mean?)