vote
/voʊt/ n [C/U]Definition
› [C] She won a majority of the votes, 15 to 13, and was declared the winner. [U] Opponents of the measure called Thursday's vote a setback. [C] She cast her vote (= voted) for Gillespie. [C] We called a meeting in order to take a vote on the issue. [U] In some countries women still don’t have the vote (= are not allowed to vote in elections).
(Definition of vote n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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