free vote

English

Noun

free vote (plural free votes)

1. (politics) In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders.

Synonyms

• conscience vote

Antonyms

• whipped vote

Hypernyms

• vote

Translations

vote in which members vote as they see fit — see conscience vote

References

• free vote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “free vote”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.