| 单词 | split ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmassplit ticket split ticket n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1836 J. Hoyt Let. 21 Nov. in W. L. Mackenzie Life M. Van Buren (1846) 262 I was reproached by you for having voted a ‘split ticket’. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms App. Split Ticket,..it sometimes happens..that individuals..erase one or more of the names and substitute others more to their liking. This is called a split ticket [1859 also a scratch ticket]. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 270 At times the party itself is divided into fractions,..and the result of such a split in their own ranks, is a split ticket. 1964 Economist 31 Oct. 482/2 A ‘split-ticket’ group..to urge voters to support Mr Johnson and Mr Keating, the Republican senatorial candidate. split ticket general ticket, a list of candidates put forward for a state or other large political division, equal in number to the entire representation to which the division is entitled, but not chosen to represent each local subdivision. mixed ticket, scratch ticket, split ticket, straight ticket: see quot. 1859.extracted from ticketn.1< as lemmas |
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