see also: Vote
Pronunciation Noun
vote (plural votes)
- 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.
- One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
- 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.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828 ↗, page 01 ↗:
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
- (obsolete) an ardent wish#Noun|wish or desire#Noun|desire; a vow#Noun|vow; a prayer
- 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475 ↗; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259 ↗, Act V, scene i, page 71 ↗:
- Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]
- 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475 ↗; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259 ↗, Act V, scene i, page 71 ↗:
- French: vote, votation
- German: Abstimmung
- Portuguese: votação
- Russian: голосова́ние
vote (votes, present participle voting; past and past participle voted)
- (intransitive) to cast#Verb|cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
- Did you vote last month?
- (transitive) to choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent
- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
- French: voter
- German: wählen, stimmen
- Italian: votare
- Portuguese: votar
- Russian: голосова́ть
- Spanish: votar
Vote
Noun
vote (plural votes)
- A person from Votia or of Votic descent.
- Votia
- Votian
- Votic
- German: Wote, Wotin
- Russian: водь
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