Usually means: Voting or polling by raising hands.
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  1. show of hands: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. show of hands: Merriam-Webster
  3. show of hands: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. show of hands: Collins English Dictionary
  5. show of hands: Wordnik
  6. show of hands: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. show of hands: Wiktionary
  8. show of hands: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. show of hands: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. show of hands: Dictionary.com
  11. Show Of Hands, Show of Hands (disambiguation), Show of Hands (film), Show of Hands, Show of hands: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. show of hands: FreeDictionary.org
  13. show of hands: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. show of hands: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (show of hands)

▸ noun:  A vote in which people raise a hand in order to state their agreement with something.

Similar:
vote of confidence, acclamation, roll call, handshaking, demonstration, placet, show, affirmative, applause, assent, more...

Opposite:
secret ballot, vote by ballot, written ballot

Phrases:
A Show of Hands, more...

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Similar:
vote of confidence, acclamation, roll call, handshaking, demonstration, placet, show, affirmative, applause, assent, more...

Opposite:
secret ballot, vote by ballot, written ballot

Phrases:
A Show of Hands, more...



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