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• Looking at the polling, I don't reckon this referendum will get up.From the entry get up
• Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine coming complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients.2022 September 23, 0:07 from the start, in As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums? • FRANCE 24 English…. From the entry get out the vote
• During the years following the EU referendum, Brexiters and Remainers both claimed him as their own.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 39. From the entry remainer
• Anthony and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont) and “suffragents” helped make the referendum a reality here.2017 November 6, Alexandra S. Levine, “New York Today: A Century of Women Voting”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry suffragist
• Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time.2016 July 1, A[nthony] C[lifford] Grayling, “Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs urging Parliament not to support a motion to…. From the entry ochlocracy
• Government by referendum is government by crowd acclamation: not democracy, but ochlocracy.2016 July 1, A[nthony] C[lifford] Grayling, “Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs urging Parliament not to support a motion to…. From the entry ochlocracy
• But there has already been an attempt to hold a Czexit referendum.2016 June 25, Rebecca Perring, “MAPPED: Czexit, Pexit, Frexit - EU referendum CONTAGION sweeps Europe amid political quake”, in Express. From the entry Czexit
• Some referenda feel like neverenda, political footballs kicked about in empty aisles.2011, Peter Swirski, American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History, Routledge, page 86. From the entry neverendum
• That’s a good reminder of how they won the referendum: these cavalier romancers trounced the roundhead number-cruncher remainers.2025 December 9, Polly Toynbee, “Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry romancer
• The story captured the sense of social media as a rolling referendum on every subject under the sun.2023 July 30, Helen Lewis, “The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter”, in The Atlantic. From the entry scissor statement
• By calling the referendum in the first place, Cameron was offering a sop to the Cerberus of the Tory Brexiters.2017 April 9, William Keegan, “Brexit hasn’t happened yet – and it is changing all the time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sop to Cerberus
• The referendum is not legally binding, nationally or internationally.2016 September 24, Adam Lebor, “Hungary likely to reject European Union refugee quota”, in The Independent. From the entry Huxit
• I refer, among other things, to the egregious abuses during our neverenda referenda and the federal robocall scandal.2014 June 17, Yaniv Loran, “How to get out the youth vote”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A16. From the entry neverendum
• The Front National won the French elections with calls for an immediate restoration of the franc and a referendum on Frexit.2014 June, World Commerce Review, volume 8, number 2, page 3. From the entry Frexit
• CapeXit needs the support of 1.6 million people to request a referendum with the SA government in order to start the process of independence.2021, Erene Roux, "The CapeXit mission: Can this be Brexit for the Western Cape?", The South African, 31 May 2021. From the entry Capexit
• A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.2019 March 5, David Miliband, “As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one”, in The Guardian. From the entry Brexit
• It seems that the Lib Dems’ policy to revoke Article 50 without a referendum has disturbed the sensibilities of all but the most swivel-eyed Remainers.2019, Michael Moszynski, Labour’s dire general election campaign. From the entry swivel-eyed
• In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist. From the entry farcical
• The letters poured in from the green ink brigade to the local evening newspapers – they had never accepted the referendum result anyway.2017, Rhodri Morgan, “Earning Respect: 2000–2003”, in Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster, Cardiff: University of Wales…. From the entry green-ink brigade
• Protests in the eastern cities of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk have turned violent and pro-Russian protesters occupied government buildings, calling for a referendum on independence.2014 April 7, Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko, “Ukraine veers closer to collapse as activists in Donetsk proclaim ‘people’s republic’”…. From the entry Donetsk People's Republic
• Brown was PM, his lieutenantess Wendy Alexander was leader of Labour in Holyrood, and the question was whether Scotland should have a referendum on independence.2010, Mitch Miller, Johnny Rodger, Owen Dudley Edwards, “The Enchanted Nat”, in Tartan Pimps: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, and the New…. From the entry lieutenantess
• A civic group called Tuesday for a referendum to decide the fate of the fourth nuclear power plant under construction in Kungliao township, Taipei County.2008 February 19, “Group calls for referendum on fourth nuclear power plant”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2024…. From the entry Kungliao
• A central element in the settlement proposals is the identification and registration of all Western Saharans eligible to vote in the referendum.2005, Erik Jensen, Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate, page 147. From the entry Saharan
• The four defied an unofficial referendum in May by voters in Kungliao Township, Taipei County, who overwhelmingly opposed the construction of a nuclear power plant.1998, John F. Copper, “Provincial, Metropolitan, and Recall Elections”, in Taiwan's Mid-1990s elections: Taking the Final Steps to…. From the entry Kungliao
• A lot of referenda are antibusiness.1988 October 28, David Fremon, “The referendum on Con Con: Does Illinois need a new constitution?”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antibusiness
• "Personally, I don't think these general referendum questions will do doodly to increase voter turnout," said Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesman Tom Leach.1988 March 11, John Holden, “Democracy with a small d: a plethora of referenda”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar…. From the entry doodly
• Higher-level local authorities must normally hold a referendum if they want to raise taxes by more than 5% a year—something they almost never dare to do.2026 February 1, “Why lots of English towns are creating puny local governments: Mad for parish councils”, in The Economist. From the entry precept
• There was a running joke that you could have predicted how Britain was going to vote in the EU referendum by watching old episodes of the show.2020 May 27, Kieran Yates, “Fifteen years of TV dinners: why Come Dine With Me has endured”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry CDWM
• "You cannot get away from the fact that they have made the weather, politically, on two issues, on forcing the referendum and on the question of migration," he said.2018 April 9, Ellen Barry, “Europe: A Drifting UKIP Ousts Leader at Center of Racism Row”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Aug 2018. From the entry make the weather
• Theresa May will use a speech to the Scottish Conservative conference on Friday to try to head off growing nationalists’ demands for a second independence referendum.2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times. From the entry head off
• Yet polling shows no ‘Bregret’ – a YouGov survey earlier this week showed 52% of voters think leaving was right and 48% wrong, mirroring the referendum result.2016 August 10, Matthew Holehouse, “Is the ignorant Leave voter just a comforting myth?”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Bregret
• The problem isn't just Brenda, it is that there will never be agreement on what to replace her with. viz. the House of Lords debacle, the Australian Republican referendum.2002 November 6, Tom, “Re: "Be careful, Paul..."”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry Brenda
• Both have abused publicly owned media for political purposes and both have mislead people about "referendum", then about "ex-post ratificatory referendum" that have never been held.2001 August 4, Roman Kanala, “Who destroyed Czechoslovakia”, in bit.listserv.mideur-l (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026. From the entry ratificatory
• The Republican-sponsored referendum, passed last spring on nearly party-line votes, was described by its backers as a way to ensure that born-alive infants are legal persons entitled to medical care.2022 October 28, Mara Silvers, “As election nears, doctors, nurses speak out against Born-Alive Infant referendum”, in Montana Free Press. From the entry born-alive

Meaning of referendum

1. noun A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment.
2. noun An action, choice, etc., which is perceived as passing judgment on another matter.

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Questions about referendum in a sentence

How do you use referendum in a sentence?

Referendum is used as a noun. For example: “My father is taking my decision on whether to go to university as a referendum on his performance as a parent, and it's very stressful.”

What is a short sentence with referendum?

“A lot of referenda are antibusiness.”

What does referendum mean?

Referendum means a direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment.