'Ballot' definitions:
Definition of 'ballot'
(from WordNet)
noun
A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
noun
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]
verb
Vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state"
Definition of 'Ballot'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Ballot'
From: GCIDE
- Ballot \Bal"lot\, v. t. To vote for or in opposition to. [1913 Webster]
- None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ballot'
From: GCIDE
- Ballot \Bal"lot\ (b[a^]l"l[u^]t), n. [F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- The insufficiency of the ballot. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. [1913 Webster]
- 4. the official list of candidates competing in an election. There are no women on the ballot. [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ballot'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absentee ballot,
- Australian ballot,
- aye,
- blanket ballot,
- canvass,
- canvassing,
- casting vote,
- counting heads,
- cumulative voting,
- deciding vote,
- division,
- enfranchisement,
- fagot vote,
- franchise,
- graveyard vote,
- hand vote,
- Hare system,
- Indiana ballot,
- list system,
- long ballot,
- Massachusetts ballot,
- nay,
- no,
- nonpartisan ballot,
- nontransferable vote,
- office-block ballot,
- party emblem,
- party-column ballot,
- plebiscite,
- plebiscitum,
- plumper,
- plural vote,
- poll,
- polling,
- preferential voting,
- proportional representation,
- proxy,
- record vote,
- referendum,
- representation,
- right to vote,
- rising vote,
- sample ballot,
- say,
- secret ballot,
- short ballot,
- show of hands,
- single vote,
- slate,
- snap vote,
- split ticket,
- straight ticket,
- straw vote,
- suffrage,
- ticket,
- transferable vote,
- viva voce,
- voice,
- voice vote,
- vote,
- vote in,
- voting,
- voting right,
- write-in,
- write-in vote,
- yea,
- yeas and nays,
- yes