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foot voting

foot voting noun: expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.

Noun

foot voting (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.
    • Foot voting provides much stronger incentives than ballot box voting for both information acquisition and rational information use.2011, Ilya Somin (January 2011), Foot voting, political ignorance, and constitutional design (PDF), Social Philosophy and Policy, 28(1):202–227, DOI:10.1017/S0265052510000105, George Mason University...
    • Foot voting is an inherently selfish individual move; it is not intended to serve the body politic.2016, Ronald Nikles (30 November 2016), Sorry, Jews—voting with your feet is not an option in the age of Trump, Scribe, Forward (retrieved 2017-10-30; archived from the original 2016-12-01)

Words that rhyme with foot voting

Questions about foot voting

What does foot voting mean?
Foot voting means expressing one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.
What part of speech is foot voting?
Foot voting is a noun.

Words near foot voting in the dictionary

  1. foot trip
  2. foot trips
  3. foot up
  4. foot valve
  5. foot valves
  6. foot voting
  7. foot warmer
  8. foot warmers
  9. foot worship
  10. foot-and-mouth disease
  11. foot-ball

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