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ballotful en · NOUN

Etymology

From ballot + -ful.

Meanings

1. A quantity of agenda items to be voted on.
   • GOP Shuns a Ballotful of Issues 1978 September 9, San Francisco Chronicle:
   • 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. 1962 November 4, “Voters Must Decide At Polls on Tuesday”, in Times-News, volume 44, number 203, Twin Falls, Ida., page 1:
   • But lately, our fearless legislators have been coming up with entire ballotsful of proposals that everyone can hate at first glance. 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:
   • There was a Senate seat at stake, and a ballotful of other business. a. 1944, Bert Stiles, “Voting”, in Serenade to the Big Bird, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., published 1952, page 110:

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