单词 | voting age |
释义 | > as lemmasvoting age 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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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