VOTE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vote in mean? 

• VOTE IN (verb)
  The verb VOTE IN has 1 sense:

1. elect in a voting process

  Familiarity information: VOTE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOTE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Elect in a voting process

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

They voted in Clinton

Hypernyms (to "vote in" is one way to...):

choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

In the latest vote in 2014, the proposal garnered 69%.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)