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down-ballot

/dohn-bal-uht/US // ˈdoʊnˌbæl ət //

下票,落选票,下选,落选的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : relating to or noting a candidate or political contest that is relatively low-profile and local compared to one listed in a higher place on the ballot: Very popular presidential nominees often cause down-ballot candidates to win.

Examples

  • However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.

  • A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

  • The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.