absentee ballot

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   (election) a ballot that is cast while absent (usually mailed in prior to election day)

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Questions about absentee ballot

What does absentee ballot mean?

absentee ballot means "(election) a ballot that is cast while absent (usually mailed in prior to election day)".

Is absentee ballot a common word?

absentee ballot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.