casting vote

n. The deciding vote of a presiding officer in an assembly or council, exercised when there is a deadlock due to a tie.

casting vote

n the deciding vote used by the presiding officer of an assembly when votes cast on both sides are equal in number

cast′ing vote′

n. the deciding vote of a presiding officer, made when the other votes are equally divided. [1685–95]

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Noun

casting vote - the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tieballoting, vote, voting, ballot - a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion"; "they allowed just one vote per person"

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决定性一票

cast

(kaːst) – past tense past participle cast – verb1. to throw. The angler cast his line into the river; These facts cast new light on the matter; She cast him a look of hatred. 扔，抛 2. to get rid of; to take off. Some snakes cast their skins. 脱落，去掉 3. to shape (metal etc) by pouring into a mould. Metal is melted before it is cast.铸造4. to give a part in a play etc to. She was cast as Lady Macbeth.选派...扮演角色5. to select the actors for (a film etc). The director is casting (the film) tomorrow. 为（电影等）挑选演员 6. to give (a vote). I cast my vote for the younger candidate.投票 noun1. a throw. At his third cast he caught a fish.抛或扔的动作2. something made by moulding. The doctor put a plaster cast on his broken leg.模压品3. a mould. The hot metal is poured into a cast.模子4. the complete set of actors in a play, opera etc. the whole cast of the play. 演员阵容，班底 5. something that is ejected by certain animals, eg the earthworm. worm casts all over the grass.排泄物ˈcastaway noun a shipwrecked person. 乘船遇难者casting vote the deciding vote of the chairman of a meeting when the other votes are equally divided. 决定性一票cast iron unpurified iron melted and shaped in a mould. 铸铁ˈcast-iron adjective1. made of cast iron. a cast-iron frying-pan.铸铁的2. very strong. cast-iron muscles.坚硬的ˈcast-off noun, adjective (a piece of clothing etc) no longer needed. cast-off clothes; I don't want my sister's cast-offs.废弃物cast off1. to untie (the mooring lines of a boat). 解缆2. (also cast aside) to reject as unwanted. 抛弃3. in knitting, to finish (the final row of stitches). （编织毛线等）收针 cast on in knitting, to make the first row of stitches. （编织毛线等）起针

Casting vote

CASTING VOTE, legislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both sides, the casting vote then decides the question. Dane's Ab. h.t. CASTRATION, crim. law. The act of gelding. When this act is maliciously performed upon a man, it is a mayhem, and punishable as such, although the sufferer consented to it.
2. By the ancient law of England this crime was punished by retaliation, membrum pro membro. 3 Inst. 118. It is punished in the United States generally by fine and imprisonment. The civil law punished it with death. Dig. 48, 8, 4, 2. For the French law, vide Code Penal, art. 316. 3. The consequences of castration, when complete, are impotence and sterility. 1Beck's Med. Jur. 72.

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noun the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie

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