vote of confidence

1. 1.

   an expression of approval and encouragement

   “they gave the chairman a vote of confidence”

   Broaderencouragement

Questions about vote of confidence

What does vote of confidence mean?

vote of confidence means "an expression of approval and encouragement".

Is vote of confidence a common word?

vote of confidence 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.