right to vote
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2.3
- noun
- Formal
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derecho al voto
- I want to give women the right to vote.
- women's right to vote
- exercise the right to vote
- deny the right to vote
Essential to make sure your right to vote still exists one year from now.
- Essential to make sure your right to vote still exists one year from now.
- And then you finally get this right to vote.
- Women wanted the right to vote and men didn't want them to have the right to vote.
- We sued around the General Assembly's practice of denying people the right to vote who are on probation, parole, post release, supervision.
- The way it stopped paying its dues at UNESCO so they lost their rights to vote.
- Like you can like one day live in a place where you know you have a right to vote and they can go.
- If any was there was something truly amazing to lots of people, They had just put the right to vote for black men in the Constitution.
Examples
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Free elections include a basic civil right, the right to vote.
Academic text (2004) -
Significantly, this is the first time in Irish history that women are given the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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So why is the right to vote one of the ones that gets taken away?
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The power of the right to vote was truly made available to everyone in America.
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We have a right to vote.
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But I'll tell you the right to vote in this country is under attack.
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Non-violence got us our civil rights and our right to vote.
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All citizens, regardless of race or creed, have the right to vote and be part of the government.
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Lincoln wanted to give freed slaves citizenship, equal rights, and the right to vote.
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Young people should exercise their right to vote as soon as they turn 18, she says.
Synonyms
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1.0
Right to take part in choosing leaders or deciding important issues
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7.6
The right to vote in elections
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3.3
Official permission to vote in elections and group decisions
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6.6
The right to vote in public elections
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the legal entitlement to participate in elections' is directly and compositionally derived from 'right' (entitlement) + 'to' (linking infinitival/prepositional marker) + 'vote' (the act of voting). This is a common, literal construction in English and in many other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Right to vote comes from the simple idea that a right is something you are allowed to have and a vote is the act of showing your choice, like putting a token in a box or raising your hand. That's why the phrase means the legal ability 'to take part in choosing leaders' today.