straw vote

1. 1.

   an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue

   Synonymsstraw poll

   Broaderpoll

Questions about straw vote

What does straw vote mean?

straw vote means "an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue".

What is another word for straw vote?

Close synonyms include straw poll. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straw vote a common word?

straw vote 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.