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🗳️ A new vote 🗳️ To vote again
to revote

to revote

2 4.7
To hold a second vote to correct an error or decide again
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈvoʊt/
: volver a votar
  • The Scottish National Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all revoted to refuse consent.

Examples

  • At any time that the citizens of Oregon felt the federal government was no longer imposing on the Constitution, we could revote to again join the Union under a new agreement.

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  • The committee decided to revote on the proposed legislation after concerns were raised about the initial results.

  • After the controversial decision, the board agreed to revote to ensure everyone's opinion was considered.

  • Voters were given the chance to revote after a mistake was discovered in the ballot counting process.

Surface Forms

revote infinitive
revoted past
revoted past participle
revoting present participle
revotes third person singular

Morphology

revote = vote (transparent) = re + vote

This is a productive and semantically clear use of 're-' with the verb 'vote' meaning 'vote again'.

Etymology

Revote is formed from re- 'again' plus vote, so to revote simply means to 'vote again'. That's why a group may revote when they need to correct a mistake or get a clearer result.