单词 | vote of no confidence |
释义 | vote of no confidence From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Votingvote of no confidenceˌvote of no ˈconfidence noun (plural votes of no confidence) [countable]1 PPVAGAINST/OPPOSEa formal process in which people vote in order to show that they do not support someone or something, especially the governmentvote of no confidence inpassed a vote of no confidence in the government. On April 22 the National Assembly 2 AGAINST/OPPOSEsomething that you do or say that shows that you do not support someoneExamples from the Corpusvote of no confidence• He was ousted after losing a vote of no confidence in the federal assembly.• Mr Trimble could face a leadership contest or a vote of no confidence at the party's annual general meeting next week.• At the beginning of November 1989 Namaliu survived what was becoming the regular six-monthly vote of no confidence.• Happily, before the vote of no confidence, parliament set it right by passing a new electoral law.• The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office. |
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