Meaning of vote | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person from Votia or of Votic descent
2. A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
3. A person from Votia or of Votic descent.
4. A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute
5. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
6. An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
7. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
   obsolete
8. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
9. A formalized petition or request.
   obsolete
10. A formalized petition or request
11. Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.
    obsolete
12. Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
13. 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.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.”

“The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is important to ensure that shareholders who engage with an investee company by voting know whether their votes have been correctly taken into account. Confirmation of receipt of votes should be provided in the case of electronic voting. In addition, each shareholder who casts a vote in a general meeting should at least have the possibility to verify after the general meeting whether the vote has been validly recorded and counted by the company.”

“If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail.”

“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: […]”

“dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)”

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