Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of people who participate in a particular event or activity.
- noun A number of things produced; output.
- noun The act or an instance of turning out.
- noun A labor strike.
- noun A laborer on strike.
- noun An outfit or array of equipment, especially that worn by a fire fighter.
- noun An outfit of a carriage with its horse or horses; equipage.
- noun A railroad siding.
- noun A widening in a highway to allow vehicles to pass or park.
- noun The rotation of a dancer's legs from the hip sockets.
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- noun
attendance ;crowd - noun US a place to
pull off aroad - noun rail transport a place where moveable
rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set ofpoints
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Examples
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But blacks midterm turnout is also traditionally low compared to white and older voters.
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Given that ballots are due on May 22, the turnout is already relatively high for a House race.
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This kind of turnout is just an unbelievable thing.
USATODAY.com - Crowd rocks Carrier Dome in greeting champion Orangemen 2003
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Other speakers echoed Mandel's sentiment that Ehrlich could win if Democratic turnout is low and the Republican succeeds in energizing his voters.
Marvin Mandel, other Dems urge turnout for Republican Ehrlich John Wagner 2010
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Gallup's polling has been pretty bearish on Dem prospects for quite some time, and reports from all over are indicating that turnout is pretty robust.
Dem enthusiasm down sharply since 2006, too Greg Sargent 2010
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Democrat votes outnumber Repub by about 2.5: 1 (so far) so it seems probable that R turnout is at least as high as D turnout, if not higher.
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| Today's turnout is gonna screw up the data geeks »
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* Want to know what turnout is expected to be like in key states?
Afternoon Fix: Cornyn says GOP won't retake Senate; projections for House continue to tilt toward Republicans; O'Donnell can't air 30-minute ad Aaron Blake 2010
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As in every runoff election, it all comes down to which campaign does the better job of persuading its supporters to get out and vote again (in runoff elections, voter turnout is generally about 50 percent of what it was in the first election).
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Matt Barreto, who does the LatinoDecisions tracking poll, told me that Latino turnout is running higher than expected and going even more to the Democrats than it did in 2008, when it was key for Barack Obama.
Will Latinos swing the West to Democrats? Edward Schumacher-Matos 2010
bilby commented on the word turnout
"But large turnouts were expected at lunchtime rallies at many of the system's 10 campuses, fueled by anger over pay cuts, rising student fees and reduced class offerings."
- Larry Gordon, Protest planned for University of California system, latimes.com, 24 Sep 2009.
September 24, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word turnout
I planted and picked pineapples on the island of Lanai in Hawaii in 1975-1976. We met every morning at a place/gathering/equipment yard we called "turnout", where we clambered into the beds of huge farm trucks to be toted into the fields for the day's work. These same trucks were used to haul the picked fruit to the harbor to be sent to canneries on other islands. I still remember the sickly sweet smell of fermented pineapple... and love it.
September 24, 2009