Meaning of “vote with your wallet” in the English Dictionary

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vote with your wallet

US also vote with your purse, vote with your dollars, vote with your pocketbook

to choose or vote according to what is best for you financially:

Most people seem to have voted with their wallets rather than with their hearts.
If free wi-fi and paid wi-fi are both available, it's not hard to imagine people voting with their pocketbook.

(Definition of “vote with your wallet” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)