单词 | revote |
释义 | revoten. A second or repeated vote; a renewed grant or financial commitment. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > assignment of state money supply1609 concordatum1625 jagir1676 vote on account1797 revote1807 pork barrel1873 token vote1923 additionality1959 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > putting to vote > repeated vote revote1807 1807 tr. L. B. Proyart Life Madame Louise 200 ‘Well,’ said the King, ‘there was, however, a revote against her?’ 1859 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 154 1015/1 The house ought to understand..that this was only a re-vote. 1865 Gladstone in Morning Star 9 June These are revotes of money granted on former occasions. 1891 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/1 The sum spent on the house was really a re-vote from last year. 1933 Times 23 Nov. 10/1 The excess of expenditure referred to..represented, in part, the sum of £40,000 consisting of ‘revotes’ or commitments undertaken by the past administration. 2000 New Yorker 20 Nov. 38/1 He doesn't think that the Democrats will risk pushing for a revote in West Palm Beach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). revotev. transitive. To grant, settle, or decree again by a new vote. Also intransitive: to vote a second or further time. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)] > grant, allow, or confer by vote > by a new vote revote1648 1648 Peoples Eccho Parl. Declar. 7 You may lawfully vote, and revoke, and re vote again, order, un order, and re order,..over & over. 1650 J. Price Cloudie Clergie 9 We know that a Parliament may vote and revoke, and revote again and again, order, unorder, and reorder, ordain, repeal, and reordain. 1786 Parl. Reg. Ireland VI. 73 We might as well re-vote the journals of the House for the last ten years. 1787 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXI. 390 It became necessary to consider, recast, and revote the whole mass of duties. 1865 Gladstone in Morning Star 9 June The Treasury should express its willingness, on a fair case being made out, to ask Parliament to revote the money. 1880 J. H. Burton Hist. Reign Queen Anne II. xii. 261 The signs of the times rendered it desirable to have that point settled by redebating and revoting the settlement of the throne. 1897 Appleton's Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 724 Certain expenditures..are not revoted every year. 1910 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 12 June 3/4 If they have the right to revote for submission then unquestionably those opposed..would have a right to reoppose. 1982 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Apr. 269/1 The ability to seek to have certain categories of ‘underspend’ and excess receipts revoted into the following year. 2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Business) 2 Negotiators are hoping for a Senate vote later this week, so it can be harmonised with the House of Representatives bill and revoted on the week after. DerivativesΚΠ 1648 King Charles I Declar. from Carisbrooke Castle 18 Jan. 1647 5 Their Voted and Re-voted Proposals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807v.1648 |
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