vote
A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
Example
“The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.”
Other meanings
An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
“The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.”
Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published.
“dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)”
Word history
From Latin "vōtum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “vote” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.