"ballotful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ballotsful [plural]
Etymology: From ballot + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|ballot|ful|pos=noun}} ballot + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|ballotsful}} ballotful (plural ballotsful)
  1. A quantity of agenda items to be voted on.
    Sense id: en-ballotful-en-noun-IudsmV5c Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

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          "ref": "a. 1944, Bert Stiles, “Voting”, in Serenade to the Big Bird, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., published 1952, page 110",
          "text": "There was a Senate seat at stake, and a ballotful of other business.",
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        {
          "ref": "1962 November 4, “Voters Must Decide At Polls on Tuesday”, in Times-News, volume 44, number 203, Twin Falls, Ida., page 1",
          "text": "With registration halting Saturday evening, absentee balloting nearing an end and candidates having their last week-end for campaigning, Twin Falls county voters will do some last-minute candidate and proposition studying before making a whole ballotful of decisions Tuesday in the 1962 general election.",
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          "ref": "1978 September 9, San Francisco Chronicle",
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          "ref": "1991 October 29, Bill Thompson, “Taking it from the top, ‘no’ to all proposed constitutional amendments”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 86th year, number 184, Fort Worth, Tex., page 21",
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