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Definition: Casting Vote |
Casting VoteNoun1. The deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Law | The deciding vote the Lieutenant Governor may cast in the case of a tie vote in the Senate. (references) |
Literature | Casting Vote The vote of the presiding officer when the votes of the assembly are equal. This final vote casts, turns, or determines the question. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judgment | Plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote; (choice); opinion; (belief); good judgment; (wisdom). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "casting vote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | votë vendimtare, votë e kryetarit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صوت حاسم في الإنتخابات, الصوت المرجح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | решаващ глас. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozhodující hlas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uden at hans stemme er udslaggivende (without having a casting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zonder dat zijn stem de doorslag geeft (without having a casting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voix prépondérante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausschlaggegebene stimme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποφασιστική ψήφοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | döntõ szavazat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | voto decisivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キー入力 (ATM card, automatic teller machine, birch sugar, cache, cash, cash card, cash machine, cashbook, cashbox, cashier, cashless, cashless checkless society, cashless society, casserole, cast, caster, Castilian, casting, caterpillar, Cathay, chimera, chinoform, Cicero, flexi-teller, hickey, key, kibbutz, kick, kickback, kickboxing, kickoff, kid, kiddie, kiddy, kids business, kimchee, kinesics, kinesiology, kinetic art, kiosk, kip, kiss, kiss-and-ride system, kit, kitchen, kitchen cabinet, kitchen drinker, kitchen programmer, kitchenware, Kitchin cycle, Kitsch, kiwi, kiwi fruit, Korean pickled cabbage, kymograph, lipstick mark, love bite, newscaster, passion mark, quinine, xenon, Xenon arc lamp, Xenon lamp, xylitol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キャスティングボート . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | teiy reaghee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astingcay otevay não ter voto de qualidade (without having a casting vote). (various references) vot decisiv. (various references) решающий голос. (various references) presudni glas predsedavajućeg na izborima (casting-voice). (various references) voto que critica, voto decisivo. (various references) utslagsröst (casting-voice). (various references) sonucu belirleyen oy, başkanın oyu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-o-s-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: constative. | |
-2 letters: cogitates, gestation, invocates, taconites. | |
-3 letters: aconites, agnostic, canoeist, cavettos, centavos, coagents, coasting, coatings, cogitate, cognates, coinages, conative, cottages, coveting, entastic, escoting, estating, gavottes, invocate, nictates, oscitant, scatting, sonicate, stenotic, taconite, tactions, tangiest, tetanics, toasting, tonetics, vesicant, vintages. | |
-4 letters: acetins, acinose, aconite, actings, actions, actives, agonies, agonise, agonist, atonics, atonies, avocets, cagiest, casting. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-o-s-t-t-v" | |
+3 letters: coinvestigator. | |
+4 letters: coinvestigators, overabstracting, prognosticative. | |
+5 letters: magnetostrictive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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