"free vote" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "whipped vote"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "free votes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "free vote (plural free votes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "vote"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-free_vote-en-noun-76dSCsv3",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "Westminster parliamentary system",
          "Westminster parliamentary system"
        ],
        [
          "democratic",
          "democracy"
        ],
        [
          "legislative",
          "legislative"
        ],
        [
          "political parties",
          "political party"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "conscience vote"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "free vote"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "whipped vote"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "free votes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "free vote (plural free votes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "vote"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "Westminster parliamentary system",
          "Westminster parliamentary system"
        ],
        [
          "democratic",
          "democracy"
        ],
        [
          "legislative",
          "legislative"
        ],
        [
          "political parties",
          "political party"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "conscience vote"
    }
  ],
  "word": "free vote"
}