vote
/voʊt/ noun A1- 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.
- 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.
- 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. · dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)
- a spending area or group of appropriations within the national budget, representing specific sectors, departments or functional areas.
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“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
She says if women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change.
What way do you vote, Matthew?”
To vote Conservative was part of Matthew’s religion.
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