Votes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VOTES in dictionary:

VERB:
• VOTE, to express an opinion
• give or register a vote
• cause (someone) to gain or lose a particular post or honour by means of a vote
• used to express a wish to follow a particular course of action
• (of a legislature) grant or confer by vote
• reject something by means of a vote
NOUN:
• a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands.
• an act of giving or registering a vote
• the choice expressed collectively by a body of electors or by a specified group
• the right to register a choice in an election.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cast a vote (a formal expression of will or opinion)

Words related to VOTES

vote7 voted9 voting10

Words that contain VOTES

devotes11 revotes10 upvotes12 outvotes11 overvotes15 ovotestes12 ovotestis12 downvotes16 predevotes16 undervotes14

How to use VOTES in a sentence

• They have nine votes and the non-Mahomedans have three, or the other way about.
• Should the constitution without slavery be adopted by the votes of the majority, the rights of property in slaves now in the Territory are reserved.
• Then, as is the usual course, the votes are announced.
• Each state had one vote, and it took nine votes, or two thirds of the whole, to carry any measure of importance.
• A second ballot was begun at last, and, obeying a force as sure as the law of gravitation, the former complimentary votes came rushing to Lincoln.
• Cartter sprang upon his chair and reported a change of four Ohio votes from Chase to Lincoln.
• Another sitting was held on March 19, and a vote was taken with the result that the previous decision was confirmed by four votes to two.
• In order to supply the place of sergeant Floyd, we permitted the men to name three persons, and Patrick Gass having the greatest number of votes was made a sergeant.
• Maud had two votes, and a young woman whose name had not been mentioned received the other three.
• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.
• But in this point of view, a few votes more or less will be little sensible, and in every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote.
• Even the masters had no votes, as the new towns sent no members to Parliament.
• Lord John Russell said, that if a direct vote of want of confidence had been brought forward, ministers might have gained a number of votes on the plea of being unfairly treated.
• There was no claim or pretence in any quarter that the Republicans did not have a lawful majority of the votes cast for electors in Oregon.
• I believe it will require ten votes of the House of Commons before people will believe it is the Duke of Newcastle that has done this, and not Mr.
• With my own hand I secured above one hundred and twenty votes on that most important question to ministers.
• They asked me to run, and on the condition that I should solicit no votes and spend no money I consented.
• Again the clerk calls the roll of the States, and each chairman of a delegation announces the votes from his State.
• The Lecompton party was reported to have cast 6,466 votes.
• He had to be so, for faint heart won no votes in those rough times.
• They have the right to cast their votes without fear or favor.
• They consider themselves in honor pledged and instructed to cast their votes for the candidate of their own political faith.
• The politicians were afraid to offend the criminals, because they might need their votes in future elections.
• But nowadays, all that is necessary to be a minister is the votes of certain little combinations of groups and subsidiary groups, who all expect a share of the spoils.
• He and his men had good fists too to use in a case of doubt on a question of votes or of a right of entrance to the hall.
• And just about as it is to be announced, Ohio throws four votes from Chase to Lincoln.
• The defect in the law as existing at the time, enabled Burr, when returned with an equal number of electoral votes, to contend with Jefferson for the Presidency.

Similar words containing VOTE without suffix s

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