vote
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vote/vəʊt/
▶noun a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands.
■ an act of voting.
■ (the vote) the right to indicate a choice in an election.
▶verb- 1 give or register a vote.
■ grant or confer by vote.
- 2 informal express a wish or suggestion.
– phrases
vote of (no) confidence a vote showing that a majority continues to support (or no longer supports) the policy of a leader or governing body.
vote with one's feet informal indicate an opinion by being present or absent.
vote of (no) confidence a vote showing that a majority continues to support (or no longer supports) the policy of a leader or governing body.
vote with one's feet informal indicate an opinion by being present or absent.
– derivatives
voteless adjective,
voter noun.
voteless adjective,
voter noun.
– origin ME: from L. votum ‘a vow, wish’, from vovere ‘to vow’.
'vote' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstain
- abstention
- affirmative
- ballot
- blackball
- block vote
- card vote
- cast
- casting vote
- closure
- disenfranchise
- division
- elector
- electoral roll
- electorate
- enfranchise
- flatline
- floating voter
- franchise
- free vote
- informal vote
- lobby
- negative
- non placet
- ostracize
- party list
- placet
- plebiscite
- plural voting
- poll
- postal
- prerogative
- psephology
- referendum
- resolve
- show
- single transferable vote
- split
- spoil
- straw poll
- suffrage
- suffragette
- supermajority
- swing
- three-line whip
- turn
- unanimous
- universal suffrage
- unpolled
- unwhipped
