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See also:Vote,voté,!vote,andvot'e

English

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WOTD – 8 November 2016
Women casting their votes during the2014 Syrian presidential election

Etymology

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FromLatinvōtum, a form ofvoveō(“I vow”) (cognate withAncient Greekεὔχομαι(eúkhomai,“to vow”)), fromProto-Indo-European*h₁wegʷʰ-(“to promise, to vow”).Doublet ofvow.

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Noun

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vote (pluralvotes)

  1. Aformalizedchoice onlegallyrelevantmeasures such asemployment orappointment tooffice or aproceeding about alegaldispute.
    Hyponyms:popular vote,electoral vote
    The city council decided the matter should go to publicvote.
    Parliament will hold avote of confidence regarding the minister.
    One occasion indicativevotes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
  2. An act or instance ofparticipating in such a choice, e.g., bysubmitting aballot.
    The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, onevote.
    • 1862 [1836],Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, inThe Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.::Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC,pages7–8:
      There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense;[…] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / Thevote that shakes the turrets of the land.
    • 1915,G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, inGossamer, New York, N.Y.:George H. Doran Company,→OCLC,page01:
      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 manyvotes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
    • Directive (EU) 2017/828 amendingDirective 2007/36/EC, recital 10:
      It is important to ensure that shareholders who engage with an investee company by voting know whether theirvotes have been correctly taken into account. Confirmation of receipt ofvotes should be provided in the case of electronic voting. In addition, each shareholder who casts avote in a general meeting should at least have the possibility to verify after the general meeting whether thevote has been validly recorded and counted by the company.
    • 2004,George Carlin,When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎[1],New York:Hyperion Books,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL,page158:
      If youvote once, you're considered a good citizen. If youvote twice, you face four years in jail.
  3. (obsolete) anardentwish ordesire; avow; aprayer
    • 1633,Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, inThree New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at thePrivate-House in Black-Friers, byHis Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed forHumphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms inSt. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655,OCLC15553475; 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.”, inThomas 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 forT[homas] Davies, in Russel-street,Covent-Garden, 1761,OCLC6847259, 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 myvotes that way: […]
  4. (obsolete) a formalizedpetition orrequest
  5. (obsolete) anyjudgment ofintellect leading to aformalopinion, apoint of view
  6. anyjudgment ofintellect leading not only to aformalopinion but also to a particularchoice in a legally relevant measure, apoint of view as published
    dissenting vote
    i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information

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Translations

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formalised choice
instance of voting

Verb

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vote (third-person singular simple presentvotes,present participlevoting,simple past and past participlevoted)

  1. (intransitive) Tocast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in anelection.
    Did youvote last month?
    • 1848, Frederick William Robertson,An address delivered at the opening of the Working-men's Institute, on Monday, October 23, 1848:
      Tovote on large principles, tovote bravely, requires a great amount of information.
    • 2020 September 24, Keshava Guha, “Letters”, inLondon Review of Books‎[2], volume42, number18:
      The Violence against Women Act was not distinct from the Crime Bill but an integral part of it.[…] Sanders has subsequently cited the inclusion of the VAWA as his reason forvoting for the overall bill, on the rather Bidenian principle that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good.
  2. (transitive) Tochoose orgrant by means of a vote, or by general consent.
    The depository mayvote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
    • 1845 June 7, “Control of Education in France”, inNiles' National Register, volume68, number1,758, Baltimore: Jeremiah Hughes,page217:
      Sixteen years after the landing on Plymouth Rock, the general court of Massachusettsvoted a sum, equal to a year’s rate ol the whole colony, towards the erection of a college.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofvote
infinitive(to)vote
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularvotevoted
2nd-personsingularvote,votest†voted,votedst†
3rd-personsingularvotes,voteth†voted
pluralvote
subjunctivevotevoted
imperativevote—
participlesvotingvoted

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Derived terms

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Translations

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assert a formalised choice

See also

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Further reading

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Asturian

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Verb

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vote

  1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive ofvotar

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishvote.Doublet ofvœu.

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Noun

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vote m (pluralvotes)

  1. vote

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Verb

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vote

  1. inflection ofvoter:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Anagrams

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Galician

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Verb

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vote

  1. inflection ofvotar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Adjective

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vote

  1. (literary or popular Tuscan)feminineplural ofvoto(“empty”)

Latin

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Participle

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vōte

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofvōtus

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishvote, fromLatinvōtum, fromvoveō, vovēre(“vow”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₁wegʷʰ-.

Noun

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vote m (pluralvotes)

  1. (Jersey)vote

Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation:vo‧te

Verb

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vote

  1. inflection ofvotar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/[ˈbo.t̪e]
  • Rhymes:-ote
  • Syllabification:vo‧te

Verb

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vote

  1. inflection ofvotar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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