CASTING VOTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does casting vote mean? 

• CASTING VOTE (noun)
  The noun CASTING VOTE has 1 sense:

1. the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie

  Familiarity information: CASTING VOTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASTING VOTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("casting vote" is a kind of...):

ballot; balloting; vote; voting (a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative)

 Context examples 

“Come,” cried the inspector, laughing; “it’s a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do you give your casting vote to?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)