preferential voting

noun

a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.

QUIZZES

CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of preferential voting

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby preferential voting

preference share, preference shares, preference stock, preferential, preferential shop, preferential voting, preferment, preferred lie, preferred ordinary shares, preferred position, preferred pronoun

British Dictionary definitions for preferential voting

preferential voting

noun

a system of voting in which the electors signify their choices, as of candidates, in order of preference

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