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turnout
[ turn-out ]
noun
- the gathering of persons who come to an exhibition, party, spectacle, or the like:
They had a large turnout at the meeting.
- quantity of production; output.
- an act of turning out.
- the manner or style in which a person or thing is equipped, dressed, etc.
- equipment; outfit.
- a short side track, space, spur, etc., that enables trains, automobiles, etc., to pass one another or park.
- Ballet. the turning out of the legs from the hips, with the feet back to back or heel to heel.
- Railroads. a track structure composed of a switch, a frog, and closure rails, permitting a train to leave a given track for a branching or parallel track. Compare crossover ( def 6 ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of turnout1
Example Sentences
The turnout is unusual in a country where political protests in the past 20 years have been concentrated in big cities.
Voter suppression often works, but it can also produce a backlash — just as we saw in 2020 when turnout was higher than it had been in decades.
Voter turnout hit historic highs, a record number voted early and by mail, and about 160 million Americans participated in the democratic process.
He praised the “twin powers of Georgia,” voting rights organizer Stacey Abrams and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, both Democrats, crediting them with laying the groundwork to boost turnout and protect the vote.
In each, turnout decreased significantly from the general election, and in all but one, Republicans expanded their vote margin.
In his final new rule of the November 14th episode, Maher takes American voters to task for the lowest voter turnout in 72 years.
And new evidence shows the cause is a turnout motivator for Democratic base voters.
Without Obama on the ballot, minority turnout can be expected to decline from its 2008 and 2012 peaks.
But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.
This much-vaunted turnout operation turns out not to have deserved much vaunt.
The turnout, considering that the admission fee was fifty cents, must have been very gratifying to the Parson.
"And don't mention the pistol," called Sam, as the turnout moved on again.
Free of the drag, it shot forth like an arrow from a bow, and soon began to crawl up to Peter Slade's turnout.
Nevertheless, there was a sizable turnout of people for the afternoon performance.
In fact I do not know of a single bachelor who has such a turnout.
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