英和和英

名詞

Election Day (plural Election Days)

1. (politics) The day on which a general election is designated to be held.
2. (US politics, specifically) The day on which general elections are held in the United States, usually the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
   • 2020 November 3, Stephanie Saul, Danny Hakim, “As Counting Begins, a Flood of Mail Ballots Complicates Vote Tallies”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 12 February 2021:

     Voters returned nearly 64 million mail-in ballots before Election Day, a pandemic-driven record that is certain to make for a more complicated vote count this year but could also reshape American elections for years to come.

3. (Philippine politics, specifically) The day on which general elections are held in the Philippines, usually on the second Monday of May.

同意語

• polling day

参照

• “Election Day”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.