Voting

Definition

vote /vǝƱt/ n ၁။ [C] ~ (for/against sb/sth) ; ~ (on sth) မဲ။ ဆႏၵ။ မဲဆႏၵ။ ဆႏၵမဲ။ cast/record one's vote ❍ take/hold a vote on sth ❍ settle/decide/resolve the matter by a vote ❍ put sth to the vote (ie decide a matter by voting) ❍ The Labour candidate received/polled 8 000 votes. ❍ The measure was passed/defeated by 9 votes to 6. ❍ The vote went against him. ၂။ the vote [sing] (က) မဲ။ attempts to win the teenage/immigrant/Scottish vote. (ခ) မဲ။ split the vote (eg between rival apposition parties) ❍ The Socialists got 35% of the vote. ၃။ the vote [sing] မဲေပးခြင့္။ US nationals get the vote at 18. v ၁။ ~ (for/against sb/sth) ; ~ (on sth) ဆႏၵမဲေပးသည္။ ဆႏၵျပဳသည္။ မဲခြဲသည္။ vote by ballot/proxy/post ❍ vote for/against the motion ❍ If we cannot agree, let's vote on it. ❍ Vote Morris/Labour on polling day! ❍ I voted ‘No’ in the referendum. ❍ Are you old enough to vote? ❍ How did you vote? ❍ The workers voted to continue the strike. ၂။ မဲခြဲ၍ ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ I was voted chairman. ၃။ ေပးရန္သေဘာတူသည္။ The directors have just voted themselves a large pay increase. ၄။ (esp passive) သတ္မွတ္သည္။ ေၾကညာသည္။ The show was voted a success. ❍ The judges voted my cake the best. ၅။ ( infml ) အႀကံျပဳသည္။ အဆိုျပဳသည္။ I vote (that) we stay here. ❏ vote sb/sth down [ PHRV ] ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ ျဖင့္ ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္၊ ေခ်ဖ်က္သည္။ ❏ vote sb in/out/on/off ; vote sb into/out of/onto/off sth [ PHRV ] ဆႏၵမဲျဖင့္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ သည္ (သို႔) ကန္႔ကြက္မဲျဖင့္ ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္။ vote the Liberals in ❍ She was voted out of office/off the board. ❏ vote of confidence n (usu sing ) ေထာက္ခံမဲ။ pass a vote of confidence in sb. ❏ vote of no confidence n (usu sing ) အယံုအၾကည္မရိွ အဆို။ survive a vote of no confidence. ❏ vote of thanks n ဩဘာေပးရန္ ပရိသတ္အား ဖိတ္ေခၚခ်က္။ propose a vote of thanks. ❏ voter n မဲဆႏၵရွင္။ canvass voters ❍ policies designed to woo voters. See also FLOATING VOTER ❏ vote sth through [ PHRV ] မဲျဖင့္အတည္ျပဳသည္။ Congress voted the bill through without a debate. ❏ vote with one's feet [ IDM ] ေရွာင္ဖယ္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ဆႏၵျပသည္။ The villagers voted with their feet by staying away from the meeting. ❏ voting n ဆႏၵမဲေပးျခင္း။ the first round of voting ❍ a new system of voting ❍ tactical voting ❍ a voting paper/slip ❍ voting patterns.

Examples

1. [vote on] : The Council will vote on the proposal next Friday.
2. [vote for/in favour of/against] : 68 per cent of the union voted against striking.
3. I’m going to vote for Jackson.
4. [vote to do something] : The committee voted unanimously to ban alcohol from the concert.
5. [vote with someone] : The smaller parties will be voting with the government.
6. [vote Conservative/Labour etc] : I voted Labour at the last election.
7. I’ve already voted.
8. [register to vote] : In Britain
9. you can register to vote when you are 18.
10. [vote someone (as) something] : She was voted ‘Actress of the Year’ by other Hollywood stars.
11. [vote (that)] : I vote that we go swimming.
12. [vote for] : I vote for eating before we watch the video.