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单词 voting
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votingn.

Brit. /ˈvəʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈvoʊdɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s– voting; also Scottish pre-1700 woitting, pre-1700 votting, pre-1700 votinge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: vote v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < vote v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The process of electing an official or reaching a decision by vote; the act or action of casting a vote.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes
voting1554
votea1614
polling1625
poll1769
1554 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 201 The saidis dekynnis..disassentit to the woting or chesing of oney ma officeris.
1622 W. Scot Course Conformitie 97 The next degree must be to keep them from voting, who had ridden, and now entred in the house of Parliament.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 165 Some, who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting.
1780 Westm. Mag. July 322/1 They would consider it as a kindness to be freed from the necessity of voting at all, because they now found themselves in a disagreeable situation, being often forced to disoblige their friends and neighbours.
1885 Manch. Examiner 20 May 4/7 The voting for the Chancellorship of Dublin University took place yesterday.
2011 Irish Voice (N.Y.) 19 Oct. 9/4 Not that my voting for him is going to matter, given where he is in the polls.
2019 Indian Express (Nexis) 13 May Voting was slow in the capital at the start of the day, but picked up gradually.
2. The choice expressed by a body of electors; the outcome of a vote.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun]
suffragea1535
suffrage1559
suffragation1576
suffraging1614
voicing1618
polling1625
votation1772
voting1826
1826 Observer 16 July On Tuesday the voting was again all in favour of Messrs. Daly and Martin.
1948 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Apr. (Suppl.) 69/2 In every branch of professional work..the voting was against the proposed Service.
1999 Nouse Mar. 12/1 The voting was very close and the others did fantastically well, but now that I have been elected I'm looking forward to a brilliant time next year.

Phrases

to put (something) to voting and variants: to submit (a matter) to the decision of a group (rare).
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c1600 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1916) 19 264 Theis thinges that were done by the Lordes of Articles are..putt to the votinge and eyther refused or allowed.
1754 A. Stevenson Hist. Church & State Scotl. II. iii. ii. 489 The leet being put to voting, the choice centred in the great Mr. Henderson.
1841 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. III. vii. ii. 450/1 Mr. Gilbert Bodie, a drunken Orkney ass, was first called on,..when the matter was put to voting.
1996 J. Martínez-Lara Building Democracy in Brazil vi. 165 The defeated amendment would now be put to voting for the second time after a 24-hour period.

Compounds

a. General use as a modifier, as in voting place, voting process, voting reform.
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1630 G. Hakewill tr. Prudentius in Apologie (ed. 2) iv. i. 293 With Scythicke piety their aged Sier Let striplings tumble from the voting bridge [L. votivo de ponte].
1649 F. Philipps King Charles I viii. 58 The voting-house, or place of bandying aies or noes.
1729 R. Bundy in tr. F. Catrou & P.-J. Rouillé Rom. Hist. II. xix. 49 Before the Centuries enter into the Voting-Place, he makes an Harangue to them, wherein he represents the Necessity of chusing able Generals in so perilous a Season.
1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 6 Saeptum was originally any inclosure, whence the Saepta or voting-place of the tribes at Rome.
1877 Denver (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Feb. Do we give her a voice in voting reforms, as essential to her welfare and happiness as others?
1911 Irish Times 25 Apr. 8/4 The simplicity of the voting process was demonstrated..by the fact that only four out of 580 papers were not correctly marked.
2013 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 51 653 One of the most striking voting patterns in many African elections is the marked difference between urban and rural voters in their willingness to support the incumbent.
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voting age n. the age at which a person is eligible to vote.figurative in quot. 1838, which refers to Wisconsin becoming an American state rather than a territory.
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1838 Raleigh Reg. & N. Carolina Gaz. 22 Oct. Wisconsin..is but a Territory, but the result shows what may be expected of her when she arrives at voting age.
1843 Niles' National Reg. 9 Sept. 22/3 There will be probably be a hundred thousand young men ready to come to the polls in '44, who were under voting age in '40.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog viii. 60 He must have reached voting age, but you couldn't tell by looking at him.
2010 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 158 848 Drinking ages and voting ages dropped to conform to the age for military conscription.
voting booth n. a compartment into which a voter goes privately to cast a vote or mark a ballot paper; = polling booth n. at polling n. Compounds 2b.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > polling-station or booth
polling placec1710
poll booth1781
polling booth1805
polling station1817
voting booth1826
polling-booth1837
1826 Examiner 11 June 1/2 We know perfectly well that your voice is small indeed in the Elections..but wherever it can prevail in the voting booths let it be heard to this effect.
2001 Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 23 Feb. a4 When you're in the voting booth, you are in charge.
voting list n. an official list of those who are entitled to vote in elections; = electoral roll n. at electoral adj. and n. Additions.
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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 > list of
voting list1783
register1789
electoral register1817
electoral roll1837
checklist1888
precinct sheet1894
1783 J. Tucker 4 Lett. Important National Subj. iii. 67 Eight Millions of People are represented in Parliament by 558 Deputies. Many of these 8,000,000 are such Infants, that they cannot speak, and others cannot speak plain. These, it is to be hoped, may without Offence be struck off from the voting List.
1930 Boston Sunday Globe 2 Nov. 3/1 Republican women have systematized the traditional telephone tree of their own leagues and clubs to the task of covering the voting list.
2014 S. Issacharoff & R. H. Pildes in R. M. Alvarez & B. Grofman Election Admin. in U.S. 212 Voting lists are kept in local polling books.
voting machine n. a mechanical or electronic device for registering and recording votes; a vote recorder.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > means of signifying choice > machine for registering votes
vote recorder1851
votometer1858
voting machine1900
psephograph1906
1848 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Dec. 429 Voting Machine, by F. C. Goffin, Trenton, N. J.
1900 Daily News 28 Nov. 7/7 The adoption of the voting machine would do away with all the delay in counting and checking the ballot papers.
2019 Guardian (Nexis) 8 Apr. The voting machines are more environmentally friendly and prevent sabotage such as ballot stuffing or the theft or destruction of boxes of voting slips.
voting paper n. a piece of paper used to register a person's vote; a ballot paper.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > means of signifying choice > voting-paper
bullet1615
billet1627
proxy1660
policy1670
ballot1710
scrutiny1728
voting paper1815
ballot paper1818
onion skin1879
1815 Wright's Leeds Intelligencer 2 Jan. We have just filled up a voting-paper, for the election of 24 children, who are..to be admitted to this most excellent institution.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 17 A handful of aged voters who..through failing sight or powers of concentration confused C.S. with C.D. Lewis on their voting papers.
2000 Financial Times 6 Jan. 2/2 The union ignored a plea from Labour and held its ballot early—before London party members had even been sent their voting papers.
voting precinct n. U.S. and Philippine English. a district within a town or city created for the purposes of elections; = election district n. at election n. Compounds 2.
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1834 New-Hampsh. Statesman & State Jrnl. 13 Sept. 1/3 The migrating voters were compelled to abide until the next day, when, on reaching their own voting precinct, they found the poll closed.
2001 Tallahassee (Florida) Democrat (Nexis) 18 Apr. b7 He was the polling sheriff at voting precinct 4 in Sirmans for 52 years.
voting right n. (usually in plural) (a) the right to vote in an election; (b) (Business and Finance) a right entitling the holder of a certain type of stock or share to vote on matters relating to the management of the issuing company; cf. voting adj. 2.
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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]
suffrage1598
franchise1769
voting right1784
1784 Speech Mr. Hardinge on E.-India Bill, House of Lords 16 Dec. 1783 56 The Bill..curtailed the voting right of the Elector.
1850 C. Manly in North Carolinian (Fayetteville) 13 July It was not to equalize the voting rights of the ‘people’ of North Carolina; but to elect the Democratic candidate..to the Presidency.
1871 Money Market Rev. 8 Apr. 346/2 The Arbitrators..issued their second award... By that award, the voting rights of debenture and shareholders were determined.
2010 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law. 58 268 Shareholders..[may] assign their voting right to another person who will be present at the meeting.
2019 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 11 July 11 Republicans..have been erecting obstacles to exercising voting rights, including limiting access to polls, harassment and exclusion of minority voters.
voting urn n. (now rare) a ballot box; cf. urn n. 2.
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1814 St. James's Chron. 13–16 Aug. Each Member..deposited in the voting urn one of two balls, black and white, which he had received from one of the Secretaries.
1937 Classical Philol. 32 347 The voting urns were discarded and replaced by two tables.
2014 Winnipeg Free Press 12 May a12/4 An election organizer arrived with a voting urn fashioned from cardboard boxes and sealed with tape.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

votingadj.

Brit. /ˈvəʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈvoʊdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: vote v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < vote v. + -ing suffix2.
1. That votes or has the right to vote; having or exercising suffrage.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [adjective]
voting1653
suffragating1684
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 > [adjective]
voting1653
pollable1693
votable1754
constituent1769
enfranchised1884
1653 R. Baxter Præfestinantis Morator in Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism (ed. 3) 398 Is it not a dividing practice to practise popular Voting Government?
1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum xviii. 339 As Mr Pryn well observeth they were not to be as sitting Voting Members, but as Proxies and Commissioners to Treat with the King and English Parliament concerning Scottish affairs only.
1837 W. E. Forster in T. W. Reid Life W. E. Forster (1888) I. 93 I saw some dreadful cases of voting drunken people, both Whig and Tory.
1907 Times 19 Feb. 3/5 It is useless to plead that the number of voting women will be limited.
2015 CAFIT Core Comm. 29 Mar. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 9 July 2019) MTR may remove the name of the voting person before sharing the details.
2. Business and Finance. Of a stock or share: that entitles the holder to vote on matters relating to the management of the issuing company. Cf. votable adj. 2.Frequently opposed to non-voting (cf. non-voting adj. 2).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities
unissued1703
preferable1837
ordinary1866
pre-preference1867
gilt-edge1880
gilt-edged1881
unlisted1882
voting1883
assented1907
voteless1908
senior1914
well-traded1936
medium-dated1943
off-board1943
go-go1966
unquoted1969
alpha1984
gamma1986
1883 Commerc. & Financial Chron. 6 Jan. 2/1 When new shares..were issued in exchange for the old shares.., each holder of the latter received voting stock for only one-half his original holdings, while for the other half he was compelled to accept non-voting stock.
1905 Yale Rev. Feb. 358 The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company is absolutely controlled by the New York Central, which..owns 90.58 per cent of its voting securities.
2013 Cape Argus (South Africa) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 24 A family trust..would offer 112.5 non-voting shares for every 100 voting shares.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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