countervote

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ vote

Verb

countervote (third-person singular simple present countervotes, present participle countervoting, simple past and past participle countervoted)

  1. To vote against.
  2. To balance or overcome by voting.
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Noun

countervote (plural countervotes)

  1. A vote that goes against another.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for countervote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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