referendum
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5.6
- noun
- /ˌrɛfəˈrɛndəm/
- Formal
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referéndum
- The local government decided to hold a referendum to let citizens vote on the new zoning laws.
- hold a referendum
- call for a referendum
- approved by referendum
So I did that and leave won the referendum a month later.
- So I did that and leave won the referendum a month later.
- I will not overturn the result of the referendum, nor will I break up my country.
- I pronounced myself profoundly I'll equipped to vote on the referendum about Brexit.
- It will be an in out referendum.
- Remember that group, the ones that won the EU referendum?
- Now, is it, is it too late, do you think, for trustees to be saying to people, look, we've got a referendum in only a few days.
- That was his opinion at one point that he expressed about how to deal with the referendum result.
- If you don't listen to people, you can't persuade them and therefore you don't win referendums and elections.
- And the question is why Ukrainian referendum is, is the answer.
- Just let have a referendum have democracy.
- But if if you get the worst referendum they could have is May's deal or stay in.
- But they'll also be having to vote about two referendum matters.
- And my prediction is that there will be the referendum.
- He's very sociable through the years, through the referendum.
Examples
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How will you be voting in the referendum?
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Venda was forced to hold a referendum after weeks of demonstrations and a civil service strike.
Academic text (1990) -
What do you think about that referendum coming up?
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We all have to reflect on our role in the referendum campaign.
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Because one thing is clear, when the British people voted in the referendum, they did not just choose to leave the European Union.
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I will not overturn the result of the referendum, nor will I break up my country.
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Speaker, on Thursday last week there was a very important local referendum in Christchurch.
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On 2 June, the Danes are to decide by referendum on the adoption of the treaty.
Academic text (1991) -
On December 1st, 1991, at the Republican Referendum, the population of Ukraine, by a majority vote, expressed support for secession from the USSR.
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In July, the KRG announced its intention to conduct a referendum on full Kurdish sovereignty and a declaration of independence.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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8.8
A direct vote by all voters about an important public question like independence or a new constitution
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Referendum comes from Latin and is built from refer ('send back') plus the ending -endum ('to be done'). So a referendum is a question 'sent back' to the people for them to decide.