Voting definitions

The casting of ballots to decide an issue; usually used to refer to the casting of votes in order to elect officials or to decide a question on the ballot.
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Entrustment by a group of stockholders in a corporation of their votes to a trustee, who shall be empowered to act on their behalf, without the stockholders retaining control to direct the trustee’s actions.
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Present participle of vote.
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(finance) Having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.
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Action of the verb to vote.
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Sentence Examples

  • Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

  • The right of voting being confined to members of the Communist party, the Government represented by no means one really elected by universal suffrage but rather a dictatorship of the lower classes.

  • In the Terror the number of those voting averaged only 250.

  • They were defeated on the second reading of the bill, Gladstone voting with them.

  • From the outset, voting by count of heads had been superseded by voting according to nations, i.e.

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