open primary

1. 1.

   a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party)

   Broaderdirect primary

Questions about open primary

What does open primary mean?

open primary means "a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party)".

Is open primary a common word?

open primary 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.