VOTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voting mean? 

• VOTING (noun)
  The noun VOTING has 1 sense:

1. a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

  Familiarity information: VOTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ballot; balloting; vote; voting

Context example:

they allowed just one vote per person

Hypernyms ("voting" is a kind of...):

choice; option; pick; selection (the act of choosing or selecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "voting"):

block vote (a vote proportional in magnitude to the number of people that a delegate represents)

secret ballot (a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public)

split ticket (a ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one party)

straight ticket (a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party)

multiple voting (the act of voting in more than one place by the same person at the same election (illegal in U.S.))

casting vote (the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie)

veto (a vote that blocks a decision)

write-in (a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot)

Derivation:

vote (express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote)

vote (express one's choice or preference by vote)

 Context examples 

An offshore company in which a U.S. person owns 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation or in which 50 percent or more of the total voting stock is owned by U.S. shareholders collectively or 10 percent or more of the voting control is owned by U.S. persons which is treated by the IRS as a U.S. tax reporting entity.

(Controlled Foreign Corporation, NCI Thesaurus)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)