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1 "Casting a vote" is now a "figure of speech" for voting. In the old days, one would vote by filling out a paper ballet, and "casting it" into a voting receptacle. But nowadays, votes are recorded electronically.
'The Hindu,' an Indian daily, reports: Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitely casted his vote at Chimanbhai Patel Institute opposite Karnavati club. Does the verb cast have a form as ca...
A quote close to the one you are suggesting is: “Every dollar you spend . . . or don't spend . . . is a vote you cast for the world you want.” By L.N. Smith in his book Sunrise over Disney (2011) There also a similar ...
You need to look at this thread on countification [of mass nouns]. Thus 'softwares' is now acceptable to some authorities, and coffees to all. As to whether 'encryptions' is 'acceptable', Wiktionary (unusually amongst...
They cannot have the privilege of casting a vote till they are twenty-one years old—but foreigners, the majority of whom don't know any more about our institutions than these infants, in six months after they step foo...
I'm casting my vote to reopen it because the answers posted here are original and fruit of users' knowledge and expertise. Not copied verbatim from Quora. I have nothing against the website but answers that are copied...
In legal usage, an "umpire" usually means an arbitrator who has a casting vote on a split panel of arbitrators, but who is appointed by the panel when they cannot decide unanimously (or perhaps by majority). A referee...
I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents." Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly
'Election' refers to moving (by majority vote of a body) to a new position or job. In that case: He won the election: He obtained, by majority vote, the position he was seeking. He won the elections: He now has multip...
I waited before casting my vote to close this question. The OP should now explain why the older question does not answer this one, and specifically say if they are looking for a noun or an adjective.
