supervoting

English

Alternative forms

• super-voting

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

English super-

English voting

English supervoting

From super- + voting.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

supervoting (not comparable)

1. (law, finance) Having greater than normal voting rights.
   • 2009 January 21, “New York Times gets Mexican bailout”, in Toronto Star‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2009:

     The Ochs-Sulzberger family owns about a 19 per cent equity stake in the company and controls it through a special class of supervoting shares.

Verb

supervoting

1. present participle and gerund of supervote