单词 | out-voter |
释义 | out-votern. Now historical. In the system for parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom: a person who has a vote in a constituency in which he or she is not permanently resident. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > other types out-voter1837 non-voter1851 absentee1864 absent voter1867 silent voter1872 floating voter1905 1837 B. Disraeli Let. 11 Aug. (1982) II. 292 I went to town from Beaconsfield in an electioneering carriage with three out voters. 1853 Littell's Living Age 15 Jan. 114/2 Randal's seconder was a bluff yeoman, an out-voter of weight with the agricultural electors. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 345 He must go through all the miseries of a canvass,..must hire conveyances for outvoters [etc.]. 1894 Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 5/7 There is a large proportion of ‘outvoters’, many of whom journeyed from the Midlands. 1967 Economist 6 May 575/1 Some distinguish between freeman electors and ten-pound householders, and between resident voters and out-voters. 1980 E. P. Thompson Making of Eng. Working Class (ed. 3) v. 181 He secured a majority of the resident freemen, but was swamped by out-voters imported from London. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837 |
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