straight ticket
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈstreɪt ˈtɪkɪt/
- US
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- People need not vote a straight ticket.
- vote a straight ticket
- straight-ticket voting
- straight-ticket Republican
Examples
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As a Republican, I have always voted a straight ticket until this last election.
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You should vote straight-ticket GOP.
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This is the first year that I have ever voted a straight ticket, and it made me sad.
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I voted early and voted a straight ticket.
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Part of the problem is people voting straight ticket, without reviewing each candidate's views.
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I have been a straight ticket Republican voter during my voting life.
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For our state's primary, I voted a straight ticket for the first time in my life, and it was all Dem.
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I too have voted straight-ticket Republican for many years, but started splitting up my ticket the last few years.
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Many voters prefer to cast a straight ticket to support their party's candidates in every position.
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In the last election, a significant number of people chose to vote a straight ticket rather than selecting individual candidates.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'straight' (i.e. without deviation / all the same) with 'ticket' (a party's list of candidates): a 'straight ticket' is therefore choosing the party's entire list. This is a regular compositional pattern found in many languages and follows predictable English modifier + noun semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun straight ticket comes from old paper ballots where each party's names were in a single column or 'ticket', and a voter could draw a straight line down that column to pick every candidate from one party. So, the phrase now means 'a ballot choosing all candidates from the same party'.