vote
Forms
- Plural
- votes
- present (v1)
- vote
- past (v2)
- voted
- past participle (v3)
- voted
- present participle
- voting
- 3rd person singular
- votes
Definitions
1.A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
- The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
- Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
- Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
2.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.
- If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail.
- There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
3.Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published.
- Who did you vote for in the election?
- Tom has the right to vote.
- Who will you vote for?
4.A person from Votia or of Votic descent.
- Who did you vote for in the election?
- Tom has the right to vote.
- Who will you vote for?
1.To exercise one's voting right upon (a ballot or a share of stock).
- Please vote your ballot using black or blue ink, then seal your ballot inside the privacy envelope.
- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
- Sixteen years after the landing on Plymouth Rock, the general court of Massachusetts voted a sum, equal to a year’s rate ol the whole colony, towards the erection of a college.
2.To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.
- The directors voted on the question of whether to increase the R&D spending.
- To vote on large principles, to vote bravely, requires a great amount of information.
- Q: Did you vote last month? A: Yes. I voted for John Smith, and it's a shame that he lost; you can't blame me for the mess we're in now.
3.To choose or grant (some objective) by means of a vote, or by general consent.
- The meal was voted a great success.
- The directors voted an increase in R&D spending.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #798
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“to vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”).
Doublet of vow.