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referenda
Alternative clues for the word referenda
- Neared solution after official votes
- Whistler earned potential votes
- Polls about to close with awful fear around
- Submissions to popular vote
- Votes on free movement - new bill is written up
- Parts of some ballots
- Arbitrator shortly needs new approval for Russian votes
- Occasions for choosing before once between judge and new attorney
- Votes to consult new dean
Word definitions for referenda in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate [also: referenda (pl)]
Usage examples of referenda.
There is no one for the Soviets to deal withleaders of sharply deteriorating caliber, beset by democracy, by politics, and doing six-month stints between midterm elections, lame-duck periods, and the informal referenda of American public life.
And a political scientist, Harlan Halm, doing a study of various city referenda on Vietnam, found support for withdrawal from Vietnam highest in groups of lower socioeconomic status.
In the election of 1980 that brought him into the Presidency, local referenda in three districts in western Massachusetts permitted voters to say whether they believed in a mutual Soviet-American halt to testing, production, and deployment of all nuclear weapons, and wanted Congress to devote those funds instead to civilian use.
Similar referenda received majority votes between 1978 and 1981 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Madison, and Detroit.