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GOTV

GOTV is the initialism of get out the vote.

Meaning of get out the vote

Verb

get out the vote (third-person singular simple present gets out the vote, present participle getting out the vote, simple past got out the vote, past participle gotten out the vote)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To increase voter turnout, typically in a highly partisan way.
    • What happens when there's that knock at the door? Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine coming complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients. It takes the concept of "get out the vote" to a whole new level. We'll ask about turnout numbers that already...2022 September 23, 0:07 from the start, in As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums? • FRANCE 24 English, spoken by François Picard, France 24, archived from the...

Questions about GOTV

What is GOTV the initialism of?
GOTV is the initialism of get out the vote.

Words near GOTV in the dictionary

  1. Gottshalls
  2. Gottwald
  3. Gottwalds
  4. gotu kola
  5. gotukola
  6. GOTV
  7. GOTY
  8. GOTYs
  9. gotzenite
  10. gouache
  11. gouached

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GOTV (page history and authors); get out the 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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