Vote

Noun

 * 1) A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities.
 * The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
 * Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
 * 1) An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
 * The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.

Derived terms

 * donkey vote
 * conscience vote
 * free vote


 * get out the vote
 * informal vote
 * subvote


 * vote mob
 * whipped vote

Verb

 * 1) To cast a vote; to assert a formalised choice in an election.
 * The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.

Derived terms

 * voter
 * vote in


 * vote out
 * vote with one's feet

Adjectives for Vote
majority; overhanging; overwhelming; disputed; injudicious; unanimous; purchasable; direct; negative; reluctant; decisive; ignorant; appalling; valid; dissenting; simple; plurality; deciding; heavy; loyal; crooked.

Adverbs for Vote
unanimously; progressively; overwhelmingly; democratically; inconsistently; regularly; affirmatively; loyally; intelligently; legally; judiciously; ignorantly; decisively.

Thesaurus
Australian ballot, Hare system, OK, PR, absentee voting, acceptance, adherence, admiration, approbation, approval, aye, back, back up, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, blessing, canvass, canvassing, card voting, cast a ballot, casting vote, chip in, choose, cloture, colonization, committee consideration, contribute, countenance, counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting, debate, deciding vote, deliberation, desire, divide, division, elect, election fraud, elector, endorse, endorsement, enfranchisement, enter into, esteem, fagot vote, favor, favorable vote, female suffrage, filibuster, filibustering, filing, first reading, floating, franchise, go into, graveyard vote, hand vote, have suffrage, help decide, household franchise, introduction, join, join in, list system, logrolling, make the scene, manhood suffrage, nay, no, nontransferable vote, opinion, opt, partake, partake of, participate, participate in, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll, polling, preference, preferential system, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, proxy voting, pull an oar, record vote, referendum, repeating, representation, respect, right to vote, rising vote, roll call, sanction, say, seal of approval, second reading, secret ballot, show of hands, single system, single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district, sit in, sit in on, snap vote, stamp of approval, steamroller methods, straw vote, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettism, suffragism, suffragist, support, tabling, take part in, talkathon, the vote, third reading, ticket, transferable vote, universal suffrage, viva voce, voice, voice vote, voter, voting, voting machine, voting right, woman-suffragist, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea vote, yeas and nays, yes

Etymology
votum:, a form of voveo:, from. Cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: քվեարկություն
 * Asturian: votu
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: vot
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 表決, 表决
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, vote
 * Galician:
 * German:, Votum
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 投票
 * Korean: 투표 (投票)
 * Norwegian: avstemning
 * Novial: vote
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: глас
 * Roman: glas
 * Spanish:
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: تصويت
 * Armenian:, քվե
 * Catalan: vot
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 表決, 表决
 * Finnish:
 * French: vote
 * Galician:
 * French: vote
 * Galician:


 * German: Abstimmung
 * Greek: (psífos)
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: голосование
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гласање
 * Roman: glasanje
 * Slovene: glasovanje

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: صوت
 * Armenian: քվեարկել, ձայն տալ
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: votar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 表決, 表决
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (psifízo)
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 投票
 * Korean: 투표
 * Latvian: balsot
 * Novial: vota
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: голосовать, проголосовать
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гласати
 * Roman: glasati
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * veto

Noun

 * 1) Vote

Related terms

 * votant

Anagrams

 * veto, véto