vote of confidence
| vote of confidence | |
noun | |
| an expression of approval and encouragement; "they gave the chairman a vote of confidence" |
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vote of confidence
procedure used by members of a legislative body (generally the lower house in a bicameral system) to remove a government (the prime minister and his cabinet) from office. To be successful, the procedure, which does not apply to the removal of heads of state in presidential and semipresidential forms of government, typically requires a majority of legislators to disapprove of the government's actions-i.e., to issue a vote of "no confidence" or a motion of censure. (Compare impeachment.)
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Vote_of_confidence
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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