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🥛 Not stirred 🏛️ No party control
unwhipped

unwhipped

8.4
A vote where members can vote without party instruction
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈwɪpt/
  • Jargon
: libre de disciplina
  • The bill was decided by an unwhipped vote, allowing members to follow their conscience.

Examples

  • The party announced that the upcoming decision would be unwhipped to encourage open discussion.

  • Many legislators prefer to stay unwhipped on controversial issues.

  • Some legislators prefer unwhipped debates to express their personal views freely.

  • The senator remained unwhipped during the vote.

  • The bill was decided by an unwhipped vote, allowing members to follow their conscience.

  • The party announced that the upcoming decision would be unwhipped to encourage open discussion.

  • Some legislators prefer unwhipped debates to express their personal views freely.

Synonyms

unhampered
vsunwhipped
1 5.3

Free to move or act without being stopped

applies specifically to being free from party instruction during votes
unregimented
vsunwhipped
1 6.7

Not kept to strict rules and giving people freedom to choose

is specific to freedom from party instruction in legislative voting situations

How Independent

free
∞ 1.0
independent
218 3.6
unwhipped
  • Jargon
8.4

Surface Forms

unwhipped positive

Morphology

unwhipped = whipped (semi-transparent) = un + whip + ed

Morphologically regular but relies on a specialized political meaning of 'whip' that may be unfamiliar to general learners.

Etymology

Unwhipped combines un- 'not' and whip, a name for the party person who tells members how to vote. So an unwhipped vote or meeting is 'not controlled by the party whip' and lets members choose freely.