vote down

Questions about vote down

What does vote down mean?

vote down means "thwart the passage of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for vote down?

Close synonyms include kill, shoot down, defeat, vote out, turn thumbs down. 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 vote down a common word?

vote down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.