Meaning

1 senses
  1. To vote for a candidate or political party other than one's preference, in order to block the election of a candidate one would prefer not to be elected.

    panaschieren

Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
to vote for a candidate or political party other than one's preference, in order to block the election of a candidate one would prefer not to be elected:

Origin

From cross- + vote.

From cross- + vote.

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Forms

cross-votes, cross-voting, cross-voted, cross-voted
Base formcross-vote · to cross-vote
3rd person singularcross-votes
Present participlecross-voting
Past simplecross-voted
Past participlecross-voted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycross-vote
he, she, itcross-votes

Past simpleLesson

all personscross-voted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cross-voted
he, she, ithas cross-voted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cross-vote

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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