no-confidence vote

noun

no-con·​fi·​dence vote

: vote of no confidence

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survived a no–confidence vote in the Knesset, but the first steps have already been taken toward calling new national elections early next year.

—The Nation, 16 Nov. 1998

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

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