单词 | straight ticket |
释义 | straight ticketnoun U.S. Politics.a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party. a ticket on which all the candidates nominated by a party are members of the party. Compare split ticket. Origin of straight ticketAn Americanism dating back to 1855–60 Words nearby straight ticketstraight razor, straight shooter, straight sinus, straight stall, straight talk, straight ticket, straight time, straight up, straightway, straight whiskey, strain Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for straight ticketstraight ticket nounUS a ballot for all the candidates of one and only one political partyCompare split ticket Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with straight ticketstraight ticket All the candidates of a single political party, as in Are you going to vote a straight ticket again? [Mid-1800s] Also see split ticket. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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