"secret ballot" meaning in English

See secret ballot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: secret ballots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} secret ballot (plural secret ballots)
  1. The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places. Wikipedia link: secret ballot Synonyms: Australian ballot [US], Massachusetts ballot [US, dated] Translations (voting system): тайное голосование (tajnoje golosovanije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-secret_ballot-en-noun-zNW9YdCd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Russian translations

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for secret ballot meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "secret ballots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "secret ballot (plural secret ballots)",
      "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": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places."
      ],
      "id": "en-secret_ballot-en-noun-zNW9YdCd",
      "links": [
        [
          "voting",
          "vote"
        ],
        [
          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "polling",
          "polling"
        ],
        [
          "polling place",
          "polling place"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "Australian ballot"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US",
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "Massachusetts ballot"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tajnoje golosovanije",
          "sense": "voting system",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "тайное голосование"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "secret ballot"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "secret ballot"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "secret ballots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "secret ballot (plural secret ballots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "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",
        "Terms with Russian translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "voting",
          "vote"
        ],
        [
          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "polling",
          "polling"
        ],
        [
          "polling place",
          "polling place"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "Australian ballot"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "US",
            "dated"
          ],
          "word": "Massachusetts ballot"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "secret ballot"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tajnoje golosovanije",
      "sense": "voting system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "тайное голосование"
    }
  ],
  "word": "secret ballot"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-07-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (e79c026 and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.