单词 | silent voter |
释义 | silent votern. 1. A member of a legislative or deliberative assembly who votes on a motion, bill, etc., but does not speak during the debate. Cf. silent vote n. 1. ΚΠ 1777 Northampton Mercury 9 June His Grace..declared, that..he could not be a silent Voter on a Question so nationally important as that before the House. 1865 Law Times 2 Sept. 532/2 Lord Grey voted for the Bill, but did not speak; Lords Melville and Redesdale were among the silent voters against it. 2015 Hansard Lords (Electronic ed.) 15 Sept. 1802 Our judgment has to be expressed verbally on occasion, but it is also expressed in the voting Lobby. That is an important function, and the silent voter..is not a bad thing. 2. Originally U.S. A person whose voting intention is unknown in polling ahead of a vote. See silent vote n. 2.Now the usual sense. 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 1872 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. 6/2 Reasoning from their characteristics, one can judge of the future in this country infinitely better than from any ‘tables of returns’ or lists of voters. One of the convictions of these silent voters, is that ‘the Republic must be preserved’. 2017 @BrettMDecker 11 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Aug. 2019) Which way will the silent voter go in #AlabamaSenateRace? Hidden #vote & fudged #polls were key factors in #Trump's ‘surprise’ win. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1777 |
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