Usually means: Decisive vote in a tie.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word casting vote:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. casting vote: Merriam-Webster
  2. casting vote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. casting vote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. casting vote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. casting vote: Vocabulary.com
  6. casting vote: Wordnik
  7. casting vote: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. casting vote: Wiktionary
  9. casting vote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. casting vote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Casting vote, casting vote: Dictionary.com
  12. Casting vote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. casting vote: Rhymezone
  14. casting-vote: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. Casting Vote: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. casting vote: FreeDictionary.org
  17. casting vote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. casting vote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. casting vote: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Casting Vote: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Casting vote: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (casting vote)

▸ noun:  A vote made by the leader or chair of a group, in the event of a deadlock

Similar:
block vote, whipped vote, proxy voting, election, roll call, subvote, two-line whip, delegate, executive decision, coleader, more...

Opposite:
abstention, non-vote, withholding vote

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Similar:
block vote, whipped vote, proxy voting, election, roll call, subvote, two-line whip, delegate, executive decision, coleader, more...

Opposite:
abstention, non-vote, withholding vote



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