cast one's vote

cast one's vote
To vote for something.

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  • cast one's vote — submit one s vote, formally deposit a ballot, elect, choose …   English contemporary dictionary

  • register one's vote — index cast (register) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • vote — 1. noun 1) a rigged vote Syn: ballot, poll, election, referendum, plebiscite; show of hands 2) women finally got the vote Syn: suffrage, voting rights, franchise, enfranchisement; voice …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • cast — I (register) verb assert, ballot, commit oneself, deposit formally, effect, establish, exercise one s choice, exercise ones options, give a vote, go to the polls, hold up one s hand, make a choice, make a decision, make a selection, make an entry …   Law dictionary

  • cast — [kast, käst] vt. cast, casting [ME casten < ON kasta, to throw] 1. a) to put, deposit, or throw with force or violence; fling; hurl b) to give vent to as if by throwing [to cast aspersions] 2. to deposit (a ballot); register (a vote) …   English World dictionary

  • vote — [vōt] n. [LME (Scot) < L votum, a wish, vow < neut. of votus, pp. of vovere, to vow < IE base * ewegwh , to speak solemnly, vow > Sans vāghát, one who vows, Gr euche, a vow, prayer] 1. a) a decision by a group on a proposal,… …   English World dictionary

  • vote — I n. collective opinion as determined by voting 1) to take a vote on (a motion) 2) to put a motion to a vote; to bring a motion to a vote 3) to influence, swing a vote (recent events swung the vote in our favor; the press can influence the vote)… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • vote — /voʊt / (say voht) noun 1. a formal expression of will, wish, or choice in some matter, whether of a single individual, as one of a number interested in common, or of a body of individuals, signified by voice, by ballot, etc. 2. the means by… …  

  • cast — v. & n. v. (past and past part. cast) 1 tr. throw, esp. deliberately or forcefully. 2 tr. (often foll. by on, over) a direct or cause to fall (one s eyes, a glance, light, a shadow, a spell, etc.). b express (doubts, aspersions, etc.). 3 tr.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • vote — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. poll, ballot; franchise, suffrage; choice, voice, option, election; referendum, plebiscite. v. cast a ballot; choose, select, elect, establish, enact, ratify, veto, nullify. See assent. II (Roget s… …   English dictionary for students

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