voting right
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈvoʊtɪŋ raɪt/
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derecho al voto
- In 1964 and 1965, Congress passed landmark civil rights and voting rights acts.
- voting rights campaign in Selma
I mean, you know, but is protecting voting rights politically unpopular?
- I mean, you know, but is protecting voting rights politically unpopular?
- Oh yes, no civil, no voting rights for for women.
- We would not be a democracy if we did not have voting rights.
- And that means that in theory, you could buy a stock, sell total return swaps, and be left with voting rights without being exposed to the returns of the stock.
- This is a problem we set ourselves up to repeat on all these big tech companies with voting shares with different or shares with different voting rights.
- This creates a very real risk that transnet gendered individuals who present incongruent IDs will be denied their voting rights.
- The different voting rights were allegedly put in place so the company and its leadership would not be beholden to investors seeking short term profit.
- Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.
Examples
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With Election Day fast approaching, it is important to consider the voting rights of people with disabilities.
Blog text (17) -
After the new law was enacted, many people were finally able to claim their voting rights for the first time.
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Honey, you think the president ought to do something - about the Voting Rights bill?
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The Social Democrats came to power last year, but that was when women did not yet have equal voting rights to men.
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Women had neither voting rights nor legal access to military or civil posts.
Academic text (2011) -
The last people to receive voting rights were young adults aged 18 to 21 years.
Blog text (12) -
African Americans, determined to exercise their voting rights, waited for hours in line along with other voters.
Blog text (2) -
On 6 August 1965, the U.S. Congress passed the voting rights bill that eliminated the legal barriers to equal voting rights.
Academic text (1999) -
Kuwait lifted its reservation to the voting rights of women after a long political and constitutional battle for women's suffrage.
Academic text (2016) -
The amendment ensured that all citizens could exercise their voting rights in upcoming elections.
Synonyms
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1.0
Right to take part in choosing leaders or deciding important issues
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2.3
The legal permission to vote in an election
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7.6
The right to vote in elections
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6.6
The right to vote in public elections
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'voting' (the act of choosing in an election) plus 'right' (a legal entitlement), so it denotes the entitlement to participate in a vote. This compound follows a common noun+noun pattern found across languages and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Voting right The compound noun voting right comes from the simple image of someone being allowed to drop a paper into a ballot box. The word voting means 'choosing' and right means 'permission', so a voting right is the official permission to take part in a vote.