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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
ballot
n 1: a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
2: a choice that is made by counting the number of people in
favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor
of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person" [syn:
vote, ballot, voting, balloting]
v 1: vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It.
ballotta. See Ball round body.]
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1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any
printed or written ticket used in voting.
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2. The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or
printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine;
the system of voting secretly.
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The insufficiency of the ballot. --Dickens.
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3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a
given territory or electoral district.
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4. the official list of candidates competing in an election.
There are no women on the ballot.
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Ballot box,
(a) a box for receiving ballots.
(b) the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as
ballot[2]. "The question will be resolved by the
ballot box."
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Balloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Balloting.] [F. ballotter to
toss, to ballot, or It. ballottare. See Ballot, n.]
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ballot \Bal"lot\, v. t.
To vote for or in opposition to.
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None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number
of balls, they fell to ballot some others. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
BALLOT, government. A diminutive ball, i. e. a little ball used in giving
votes; the act itself of giving votes. A little ball or ticket used in
voting privately, and, for that purpose, put, into a box, (commonly called a
ballot-box,) or into some other contrivance.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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