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Definitions: Ballot |
BallotNoun1. A document listing the alternatives that is used in voting. 2. A choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion". Verb1. Vote by ballot; "The voters were balloting in this state". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ballot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
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Post & Telecom | A release form that authorises a customer's long-distance phone service to be switched to(another)long-distance carrier, or reseller. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BallotSynonyms: balloting (n), vote (n), voting (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: balloted (post & telecomlawgeneral). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box). |
Government | Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ballot |
| English words defined with "ballot": absentee ballot ♦ Ballot box, Ballotation, Balloted, Balloter, Ballotin ♦ secret ballot, split ticket, straight ticket ♦ To scratch a ticket ♦ Voting paper ♦ write-in candidate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ballot": Bean-king, BRYAN ♦ man ♦ PANKHURST ♦ strike ballot, suffrage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ballot": Ballotade, Ballotation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ballot" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bale, blockhead, booby, bundle, chump, clownish, currish, grip, hold tight, nitwit, pack, package, yo-yo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ballot Box Bunny (1951) The Golden Ballot (1920) Ballot Measure 9 (1995) | |
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Abraham Lincoln | The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
| Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. | |
Doug Larson | The secret ballot is a beautiful system that permits you to claim you never voted for that guy. |
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US Constitution | 1791 | But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2019 | The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; -- the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; -- The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Economic History | Iran | The members are elected by direct and secret ballot. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Adult citizens elect officials by secret ballot in their towns and villages. (references) | |
Japan | There is universal adult suffrage with a secret ballot for all elective offices. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | The judges elect the president of the Constitutional Court from among themselves by secret ballot. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | Since ethnicity is not registered officially, voting on minority self-governments is not limited to the minorities themselves; all the voters receive a minority ballot in addition to the local government ballot. (references) |
Political Economy | Austria | The OVP also received 27 percent of the 1999 ballot. (references) |
Political Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Elections are by secret ballot. (references) |
Bhutan | Human rights activists state that there is no secret ballot. (references) | |
Croatia | Citizens over 18 years of age have the right to vote by secret ballot. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Jordan | Union officials are elected by secret ballot to 4-year terms. (references) |
El Salvador | Union members must approve a decision to strike through secret ballot. (references) | |
Mexico | The CROC retained the collective bargaining contract as a result of the ballot. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SUFFRAGE, n. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Refusal to do so has the bad name of "incivism." The incivilian, however, cannot be properly arraigned for his crime, for there is no legitimate accuser. If the accuser is himself guilty he has no standing in the court of opinion; if not, he profits by the crime, for A's abstention from voting gives greater weight to the vote of B. By female suffrage is meant the right of a woman to vote as some man tells her to. It is based on female responsibility, which is somewhat limited. The woman most eager to jump out of her petticoat to assert her rights is first to jump back into it when threatened with a switching for misusing them. |
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Jesse Ventura | Get unicameral or single-house on the ballot so that the people of Minnesota could have a choice of what their government would be. |
Rush Limbaugh | But liberals know their agenda isn't popular enough to win at the ballot box, and the only way they can shape the nation is through activist judges. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | Let the representative assembly then elect by ballot, from among themselves or their constituents, or both, a distinct assembly, which, for the sake of perspicuity, we will call a council. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance. |
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| "Ballot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.06% of the time. "Ballot" is used about 939 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.06% | 902 | 7,934 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.87% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.74% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 939 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ballot": absentee ballot ♦ Australian ballot ♦ ballot box ♦ ballot box stuffing ♦ ballot for a place ♦ ballot paper ♦ ballot theory ♦ ballot vote ♦ by secret ballot ♦ cast a ballot ♦ decide smth. by ballot ♦ drop one's ballot paper into the box ♦ final ballot ♦ first ballot ♦ hold a ballot ♦ hold a ballot about smth. ♦ second ballot ♦ secret ballot ♦ strike ballot ♦ stuff a ballot box ♦ take a ballot ♦ take a ballot on. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ballot": ballot-a, ballot-box, ballot-counting, ballot-paper, ballot-rigging, ballot-stuffing. | |
Ending with "ballot": anti-ballot, first-ballot, second-ballot, two-ballot. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ballot star | 122 |
ballot box | 100 |
ballot | 88 |
ballot mlb star | 72 |
ballot baseball star | 29 |
allstar ballot | 25 |
butterfly ballot | 10 |
ballot game star | 10 |
ballot box plastic small | 9 |
voting ballot | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ballot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | votim (poll, polling, vote, voting), rezultate të votimit, hedhje shorti, fletë votimi (voting paper). (various references) | |
Arabic | ورقة الإقتراع, حق الإقتراع (suffrage, vote), تصويت (poll, polling, vote, voting), إقترع (vote), إجراء القرعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | теглене на жребий, гласуване (poll, suffrage, vote, voting), бюлетина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 选票, 選票 (a vote). (various references) | |
Czech | volit (choose, opt, select, vote), volby (election, elections), tajná volba, hlasovací lístek, hlasování (plebiscite, poll, vote). (various references) | |
Danish | operatørvalgsformular, -afstemning;-valgrunde, afstemning (balancing, tuning, voting). (various references) | |
Dutch | stemming (atmosphere, balloting, ethos, frame of mind, market trend, mood, temper, tendency, trend, voting by ballot). (various references) | |
Esperanto | balotado (balloting, voting by ballot). (various references) | |
Farsi | مهره رای وقرعه کشی , مجموع اراء نوشته , قرعه کشیدن , ورقه رای , رای مخفی , باورقه رای دادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | valintavapautus. (various references) | |
French | scrutin (ballotting). (various references) | |
German | abstimmung (agreement, balancing, coordination, matching, poll, suiting, tuning, vote, voting), Wahlgang. (various references) | |
Greek | ψηφοφορία (poll, suffrage, voting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"'ריל (cast lots, draw, raffle), ל"צביע חשאית, קלפי (ballot box, poll, polling station), פיס (draw, lot, lottery, raffle), פתק "צבע". (various references) | |
Hungarian | szavazócédula (voting paper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | suara pemilihan, kertas suara pemilihan umum. (various references) | |
Italian | scrutinio (assignment of marks, poll, scrutiny). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 票決 (vote), 票 (label, sign, ticket), 一票 (a vote). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひょうけつ (congelation, decision, freeze, freezing, verdict, vote, voting), ひょう (a council, bag counter, bale, chart, commentary, criticism, hail, label, lean on, leopard, lie heavy, list, panther, recline on, sack, sign, straw bag, table, threat, ticket), いっぴょう (a vote, onebagful). (various references) | |
Korean | 투표 (Balloted, Balloting, Poll, Polling, polls, Vote, Voting). (various references) | |
Manx | teiy (balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick, pick over, poll; prime, select, vote). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stemmeseddel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allotbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | votação secreta (secret ballot, secret voting), escrutínio (balloting, scrutiny, voting, voting by ballot), decidir por votação, cédula (bank note), a volta do escrutinio. (various references) | |
Romanian | buletin de vot (ticket, vote, voting paper), balot (bale, pack, packet), vot (division, franchise, suffrage, voice, vote, voting). (various references) | |
Russian | голосование (inconclusive vote, poll, polling, vote, voting), баллотировочный шар, избирательный бюллетень (ballot-paper, vote, voting paper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glasački listić (voting paper). (various references) | |
Spanish | votación (division, poll, polling, vote, voting), balotaje (balloting, voting, voting by ballot). (various references) | |
Swedish | valsedel, rösta (poll, vote). (various references) | |
Turkish | oylama yapmak (take the vote), oylama (show of hands, vote, voting), oy vermek (cast one's vote, give vote, plump for, poll, poll for, vote, vote for), oy sayısı (poll), oy pusulası (ballot paper, voting paper), oy hakkı (suffrage, the vote, voting power), kura çekmek (cast lots, draw, draw lots, take pot luck), gizli oylama. (various references) | |
Ukranian | список кандидатів для голосування, результати голосування, тягти жеребок, купка, голосувати (divide, poll, thumb a lift, vote), голосування (division, poll, polling, suffrage, vote, voting), виборчий бюлетень (ballot paper), жеребкування (draw, sortition, toss up), балотувати, балотування, проводити голосування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phiếu bầu (ballot-paper), lá thăm (ballot-paper), lá phiếu (ballot-paper, voting-paper), hòm phiếu (ballot-box). (various references) | |
Welsh | balot, tugel. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ballot": balloted, balloter, balloters, balloting, ballots. (additional references) | |
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"Ballot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balclutha, ballett, ballit, ballo, ballon, Ballou, ballout, ballrt, ballum, ballut, baloo, balor, balot, Balou, balrog, balto, balut, bellcote, belloa, Belloch, Bellto, Blaworth, bollit, Bollom, bulot, bylot, Callot, Fallot, gallot. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ballot" (pronounced ba"lut) |
| 4 | -a" l u t | mallet, palate, palette, pallet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, autopilot, billet, booklet, boomlet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, hamlet, harlot, helot, immaculate, inarticulate, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, omelet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-l-o-t" | |
-1 letter: allot, atoll, bloat. | |
-2 letters: alto, ball, blat, blot, boat, bola, boll, bolt, bota, lota, olla, tall, tola, toll. | |
-3 letters: abo, alb, all, alt, bal, bat, boa, bot, lab, lat, lob, lot, oat, tab, tao. | |
-4 letters: ab, al, at, ba, bo, la, lo, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: ballots, tallboy, tollbar. | |
+2 letters: ballonet, balloted, balloter, boatbill, football, lobately, lobulate, mothball, oblately, softball, tallboys, tollbars, trilobal. | |
+3 letters: ballonets, balloters, balloting, ballpoint, boatbills, bookstall, botulinal, footballs, globalist, lobulated, locatable, mothballs, softballs, stoopball, tolerable, tolerably. | |
+4 letters: absolutely, ameloblast, balloonist, ballpoints, blastocoel, boastfully, bookstalls, brocatelle, buttonball, footballer, globalists, isolatable, lobulation, lovability, mothballed, myeloblast, obligately, portabella, portabello, softballer, stoopballs, subtotally, tablecloth. | |
+5 letters: abiotically, allocatable, ameloblasts, balletomane, balloonists, bibliolater, bibliolatry, blastocoele, blastocoels, boilerplate, botanically, brocatelles, buttonballs, coilability, collaborate, collectable, elaborately, exploitable, footballers, holoblastic, intolerable, intolerably, labiodental, librational, lobulations, lymphoblast, megaloblast, melanoblast, mothballing, myeloblasts, portabellas, portabellos, rambouillet, relocatable, robotically, softballers, solvability, sublittoral, subtotalled, tablecloths, violability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 6C 6F 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .-.. --- - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l l o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 006C 006F 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366778788186 |
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