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ballot box

ballot box noun: a sealed box with a slit, into which a voter places a completed voting slip.

Noun

ballot box (plural ballot boxes)

  1. A sealed box with a slit, into which a voter places a completed voting slip.
  2. (metonymically) The process or method of voting.
    • The people will decide at the ballot box.
    • Incumbent Sadiq Khan wants a third term. But he is currently silenced by the strict rules of 'purdah', so he cannot use funds from the Greater London Authority for anything that might give him political advantage. There are strict neutrality rules to ensure that all ten candidates stand an equal...2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 30

ballot box meaning in Tamil, Gujarati, Tagalog and Indonesian

ballot box in Tamil

வாக்குப் பெட்டி, குட வோலைப் பெட்டி

ballot box in Gujarati

a sealed box into which a voter puts a voting slip
મતપેટી matpeṭī

ballot box in Tagalog

a sealed box into which a voter puts a voting slip
urna

ballot box in Indonesian

a sealed box into which a voter puts a voting slip
kotak suara

Forms of ballot box

pluralballot boxes

Words formed from ballot box

Questions about ballot box

What does ballot box mean?
Ballot box means a sealed box with a slit, into which a voter places a completed voting slip.
What is ballot box in Tamil?
Ballot box in Tamil is வாக்குப் பெட்டி, குட வோலைப் பெட்டி. See Ballot box meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ballot box?
Ballot box is a noun.
What is the plural of ballot box?
The plural of ballot box is ballot boxes.

Words near ballot box in the dictionary

  1. balloonsonde
  2. balloonsondes
  3. balloony
  4. Ballos
  5. ballot
  6. ballot box
  7. ballot boxes
  8. ballot candy
  9. ballot chasing
  10. ballot collecting
  11. ballot curing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballot box (page history and authors); ballot box (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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