Election Day

  

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Election Day

Definition: Election Day

Election Day

Noun

1. The day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Election Day

Synonym: polling day (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Election Day

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Election Day in the United States is the Tuesday following the second Monday of November. It is the day where polls open for the election of public and government officials. On even-numbered years, all members of the United States House of Representatives are placed on the ballot, either for reelection or replacement by a challenger. Also on even-numbered years, 1/3 of the U.S. Senators are placed on the ballot. On years divisible by four, the President of the United States is placed on the ballot, either to be reelected, beaten by a challenger, or, in cases where the president cannot (two terms being the maximum) or decides not to run again, entirely new candidates are placed on the ballot.

See Also: election, U.S. presidential election, holidays

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Election Day."

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Crosswords: Election Day

English words defined with "election day": absentee ballotdatefatal, fatefulpolling day. (references)
Specialty definitions using "election day": Belted KnightPublic Law 94-171SAVONAROLA, SUFFRAGETTEVoting, people eligible to register. (references)

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Modern Usage: Election Day

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Election Day (1929)

Song Titles

What Did You Do On Election Day (performing artist: The Foremen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Election Day

DomainTitle

Books

  • Election Day (reference)

  • Election Day (Holiday Histories) (reference)

  • Election Day (Rookie Read-About Holidays) (reference)

  • Election Day 2084: A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future (reference)

  • Election Day Sermons (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Election Day

Illustrations:
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Non-Fiction Usage: Election Day

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Guyana

Both groups issued reports saying that the elections had been free and fair, despite violent attacks on the Elections Commission building on election day and other irregularities. (references)

Togo

Under substantial domestic and foreign pressure and the burden of the general strike, the presidential faction entered negotiations with the opposition in early 1993. Four rounds of talks led to the July 11 Ouagadougou agreement setting forth conditions for upcoming presidential and legislative elections and ending the general strike as of August 3, 1993. The presidential elections were set for August 25, but hasty and inadequate technical preparations, concerns about fraud, and the lack of effective campaign organization by the opposition led the chief opposition candidates--former minister and Organization of African Unity Secretary General Edem Kodjo and lawyer Yawovi Agboyibo--to drop out of the race before election day and to call for a boycott. (references)

Human Rights

Benin

Somasse was accused of violating the law against campaigning on election day. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

Conte won a second 5-year term in a December 1998 election that was marred by violence and civil unrest before and after election day, widespread and diverse irregularities that tended to favor the incumbent, and the arrest and detention of major opposition candidates during the vote-counting process. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

However, on election day far fewer registered women than registered men actually voted. (references)

Ukraine

For example, an unusually high number of voters were allowed to vote before election day. (references)

Travel

Philippines

In addition, special public holidays such as Election Day and EDSA Revolution Day may be declared by the President and are observed nationwide. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Election Day

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Documents show the network held a private conference in Washington earlier this month to discuss ways of raising and spending money when new campaign finance laws kick in after election day.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Election Day

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

election day

23

election day arcadia

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Election Day

Language Translations for "election day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

wahltag (polling day). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

選挙日 , 投票日 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せ"きょび, とうひょうび. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electionay ayday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

campanha eleitoral. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

día de elección. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Election Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-t-y"

-2 letters: toenailed.

-3 letters: anecdote, anticold, catenoid, daltonic, dateline, decently, delation, deletion, delicate, denticle, diacetyl, election, entailed, entoiled, lanceted, lineated, nodality.

-4 letters: acetone, acolyte, aconite, acyloin, aliened, aloetic, anolyte, anticly, celadon, centile, cineole, citadel, cleaned, cleated, codeina, codeine, condyle, cotidal, ctenoid, cyanide, cyanite, dacoity, dactyli, decline, delaine, deltaic, deontic, dialect, dicotyl, edacity, edictal, elation, eloined, enacted, enlaced, enticed, inlaced, lactone, latency, latened, lection, lentoid, licente, lineate, located, needily, nodical, notedly, noticed, tacnode, taloned, toenail.

-5 letters: acetin, acetyl, acidly, acnode, action, adenyl, aedile, aedine, aeonic, alined, aliyot, alnico, aneled, anodic, anteed, atelic, atoned, atonic, cadent, candle, canoed, canted, cantle, cation, catlin, ceiled, cenote, centai, cental, cetane, cineol, citola, citole, clayed, client, cloned, cloyed, coaled, coated, coatee, codeia, codein, codlin, coedit, coiled, coined, coital, colead, cyanid, dacoit, dactyl, dainty, dalton, daylit, deacon, decane, decant, deceit, decent, decile, delate, delict, deltic, denial, denote, dental, dentil, detail, detain, dilate, dioecy, docent, docile, donate, edenic, eidola, elated, elodea, enatic, encode, endite, enlace, enolic, entail, entice, entoil, eolian, etalon, etoile, eyelid, ideate, indole, inlace, iodate, ladino, lanced, lancet, lateen, latino, leaden, leaned, lectin, lenity, lentic, litany, loaned, locate, nailed, neatly, nicely, nicety, noetic, notice, noyade, octane, oilcan, oleate, oleine, tailed, talced, talion, tenace, tenail, teniae, tincal, tineal, toiled, tolane, yeaned, yeelin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-t-y"
 

+2 letters: considerately.

 

+3 letters: electrodynamic.

 

+4 letters: electrodynamics, inconsiderately, laryngectomized.

 

+5 letters: cladogenetically, paedogenetically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Election Day


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E      44 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E      0044 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39787169867581802386791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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