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单词 to ballot for
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to ballot for
b. intransitive. to ballot for: to select (a body of officials, etc.), elect or reject (an individual candidate), by secret voting. Frequently in prepositional passive. Now rare.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)] > vote secretly upon
ballot1549
billeta1691
to ballot for1695
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 464 The two houses ballotted for a committee..to take Sir Thomas Cooks examination.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 406 I was this evening to be ballotted for as candidate for admission into that distinguished society.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 275 Every member must be balloted for, or admitted by the consent of the rest.
1869 Daily News 17 Dec. 5/6 Twelve candidates for the fellowship were proposed and ordered to be balloted for.
1996 C. Jungnickel & R. K. McCormmach Cavendish viii. 351/1 Each of the several classes of the institute proposed candidates, who were then balloted for at a general meeting.
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