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Vote

noun
1.
A choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative.  Synonyms: ballot, balloting, voting.  "They allowed just one vote per person"
2.
The opinion of a group as determined by voting.
3.
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment.  Synonyms: right to vote, suffrage.
4.
A body of voters who have the same interests.
5.
The total number of voters who participated.  Synonym: voter turnout.
verb
(past & past part. voted; pres. part. voting)
1.
Express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote.  "None of the Democrats voted last night"
2.
Express one's choice or preference by vote.
3.
Express a choice or opinion.  "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant"
4.
Be guided by in voting.
5.
Bring into existence or make available by vote.



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"Vote" Quotes from Famous Books



... waiting for me. He is a leader of the Catholic party which has been in power in Belgium for the past thirty years, and, although he is seventy-five years old, he is still a big figure in the little country. He behaved very well on the trip, and if I were a Belgian citizen I should vote for him on ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... He would not be deprived of it if he could: witness the discussions of the Income Tax, which every body denounces while no one justifies it abstractly; and yet it is always upheld, and I presume always will be. If the question could now be put to a direct vote, even of the tax-payers alone—"Shall or shall not a system of Common School Education for the United Kingdoms be maintained by a National Tax?"—I believe Free Schools would be triumphant. Even if such a system were matured, put in operation, and to be sustained ...
— Glances at Europe - In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, - Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. • Horace Greeley
... of the Camellia Buds, and passed a vote of sympathy, for one thing. I suppose I ought to 'convey' it to you in ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... that feller, Duke! There he is; there's the man I've been lookin' for ever since I was old enough to vote. I didn't believe there was any such a feller; ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... the Union, on the 17th day of April, 1861, most of her citizens, belonging to the United States Navy, resigned their commissions, and offered their services to the State of their birth. Many of them had meddled so little with politics as never even to have cast a vote; but having been educated in the belief that their allegiance was due to their State, they did not hesitate to act as honor and patriotism seemed to demand. They were compelled to choose whether they would aid in subjugating their ...
— The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner • John Wilkinson


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