Definitions for ballot

ballot bal·lot

Spelling: [bal-uh t]
IPA: /ˈbæl ət/

Ballot is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in ballot (abllot).

Definitions for ballot

noun

  1. a slip or sheet of paper, cardboard, or the like, on which a voter marks his or her vote.
  2. the method of secret voting by means of printed or written ballots or by means of voting machines.
  3. voting in general, or a round of voting:
  4. the list of candidates to be voted on:
  5. the right to vote:
  6. the whole number of votes cast or recorded.
  7. a system or the practice of drawing lots:
  8. (formerly) a little ball used in voting.

verb (used with object)

  1. to canvass or solicit (a group, membership, etc.) for votes:
  2. to select, especially for military service, by ballot:

verb (used without object)

  1. to vote by ballot:
  2. to draw lots:

Origin of ballot

1540-50; (Middle French ballotte) Italian ballotta (probably ball(a) ball1 + -otta diminutive suffix

Examples for ballot

Grant the ballot, and the new corollary of enlarged suffrage.

He paused before the half-barricaded door and presented his ballot.

He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.

The only remedy for her, as for man himself, in this republic, is the ballot in her hand.

By 2012, the marriage equality movement had won in courts and legislatures—but not at the ballot box.

However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

The ballot is the scepter of power in the hand of every citizen.

It was a wet day, only a few at the ballot, and somehow you got in.

At least 29 fellow Republicans must vote against Boehner for a second ballot to be reached, and that seems very unlikely.

If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years.

Word Value for ballot
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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