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  2. Disapproval - Wikipedia

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    Search for Disapproval in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Disapproval article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  3. Combined approval voting - Wikipedia

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    Combined approval voting (CAV) is an electoral system where each voter may express approval, disapproval, or indifference toward each candidate. [1] The winner is the candidate with the highest score, which is determined by subtracting the number of approval votes by the number of disapproval votes. It is a cardinal system and a variant of ...

  4. Disapproval voting - Wikipedia

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    Advocating disapproval or approval voting may be seen as taking a position on the tolerances versus preferences problem. Some propose that disapproval is more likely to trigger tolerance ideas of the voter, e.g. as in a poor woman choosing a lifetime mate, while approval is more likely to trigger preferences, e.g. as in shopping.

  5. Censure - Wikipedia

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    A censure is an expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism. [1] In parliamentary procedure, it is a debatable main motion that could be adopted by a majority vote. . Among the forms that it can take are a stern rebuke by a legislature, a spiritual penalty imposed by a church, or a negative judgment pronounced on a theological propos

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  8. Dissent - Wikipedia

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    Sticker art arguing that dissent is necessary for democracy.. Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual.

  9. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.