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cross-voting

cross-voting is the present participle and gerund of cross-vote.

Meaning of cross-vote

Verb

cross-vote (third-person singular simple present cross-votes, present participle cross-voting, simple past and past participle cross-voted)

  1. To vote for a candidate or political party other than one's preference, in order to block the election of a candidate one would prefer not to be elected.

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Questions about cross-voting

What is cross-voting the present participle and gerund of?
Cross-voting is the present participle and gerund of cross-vote.

Words near cross-voting in the dictionary

  1. cross-vote
  2. cross-voted
  3. cross-voter
  4. cross-voters
  5. cross-votes
  6. cross-voting
  7. cross-wedge
  8. cross-wing
  9. cross-wings
  10. cross-wired
  11. cross-wires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-voting (page history and authors); cross-vote (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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