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revote

American  
[ree-voht, ree-voht] / ˈriˌvoʊt, riˈvoʊt /

noun

  • revotes
    plural
  1. a vote taken again.


verb

revoted, revoting
  1. to vote again.

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Vance showed up to cast a tiebreaker on a subsequent vote to ensure the resolution couldn’t get a revote later on.

From Slate ● May 3, 2025

His lawyer said they hoped for a revote.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

As he thanked his supporters he appealed for reconciliation with his rivals, who are already demanding a revote in Africa’s most populous nation.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Nonetheless, the original victory in Staten Island — and a revote in Alabama — triggered outreach from hundreds of new workers interested in unionizing some of the company’s warehouses, according to the unions.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2022

The labor board later ordered a revote after it concluded that Amazon had violated election rules, but unions tend to lose in so-called rerun elections.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022

The losing candidate might wish to contest the result in Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, which has the power to order recounts and even revotes.

From Economist ● Jul. 10, 2014

And it has the power to impose almost any kind of remedy it wants, from ordering recounts and revotes to interpreting individual ballots that are in dispute.

From Time Magazine Archive

On May 8, Armenia’s parliament revoted, and this time, with the grudging support of several Republican MPs, Pashinyan was elected prime minister.

From Slate ● May 10, 2018

Many of the subsidies lapsed through failure to begin construction, but usually they were revoted.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar Douglas Skelton

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