nonvoter

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English

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Etymology

From non- +‎ voter.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nonvoter (plural nonvoters)

  1. Someone who does not, or is not eligible to, vote. [from 19th c.]
    • 1891, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Men and Events of Forty Years:
      Non-voters were deemed fanatics less dangerous than the Birney and Hale men, who chose at first between the two great debauched parties.
    • 2016, Sarah Marsh, The Guardian, 15 November:
      But as well as those who were firmly in team Trump or team Clinton, there’s another group to think about: the non-voters.

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