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to vote in

to vote in

43 3.2
Choose someone for a position in an election
  • phrasal verb
  • /voʊt ɪn/
translation icon : elegir
  • Yes, Mr. President, and they have the right to vote in Alabama.
  • vote in the House
  • vote in Congress
  • vote in the UN

Examples

  • And I never thought I'd say this, but it appears that the president is trying to get people not to vote in the November election.

  • It's important to vote in the upcoming referendum to influence the future of our city.

  • Charles, what we talked about earlier... I'd like to bring that up for a vote in the next meeting.

    The Leisure Class (2015)

  • If you're going to vote in an election, how do you decide who to vote for?

  • Everyone I know couldn't wait to vote in this election, and they got to the polls.

    Blog text (6)

  • The right to vote in free and fair elections, for example, partakes of both dimensions.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I came home to vote in the presidential election because they wouldn'’t give me an absentee ballot.

    The Godfather Part II (1974)

  • Citizens in the community decided to vote in a new mayor during the upcoming election.

  • After much discussion, the committee will vote in a new policy to improve local schools.

Synonyms

to elect
vsto vote in
∞ 3.3

To choose by voting or to decide to do something

is limited to bringing someone into a post through a formal group decision with ballots

Antonyms

to vote out
57 3.2

Reject a proposal by voting against it

How Supported

to vote in
43 3.2
to vote
∞ 1.0
to vote out
57 3.2
to vote down
18 4.2

Surface Forms

vote in infinitive
voted in past
voted in past participle
voting in present participle
votes in third person singular

Morphology

vote + in

The meaning 'to elect or bring someone into a position' is directly derivable from combining 'vote' (to indicate a choice) with 'in' (into a position/status), following a common verb+particle pattern that signals movement or placement into office. This composition is cross-linguistically frequent (e.g. equivalents meaning 'vote into office'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the sense.

Etymology

The phrasal verb vote in comes from the simple picture of people using a vote to put someone in to an office or chair. That's why it means 'to elect someone'.