Voting vs Election - What's the difference?
voting | election |
(finance) Having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.
* The cumulative voting''' preferred stock remains '''voting until all cumulative dividends are paid.
action of the verb to vote
* (William Cobbett)
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
(archaic) Any conscious choice.
*, II.20:
* Francis Bacon
(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
(obsolete) Those who are elected.
* Bible, Rom. xi. 7
As nouns the difference between voting and election
is that voting is action of the verb to voteelection is a process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.As a verb voting
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective voting
is having an associated right for the holder to vote as an owner of business.voting
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- We have said all this: all this we say, and will continue to say; and we have talked, too, and shall talk, about the divers most curious votings and enactings of this House
Derived terms
*cumulative voting *preferential voting *voting booth *voting machine *voting paper *voting slip *voting station *voting stockSee also
*(wikipedia "voting")election
English
(Election)Noun
(en noun)- The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
citation
- The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
- Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
- To use men with much difference and election is good.
- The election hath obtained it.