0 a vote in which people raise one of their hands to show that they support a suggestion: --
Her re-election to the committee was defeated on/by a show of hands.
We all know that, generally speaking, strikes are decided by a show of hands.
We should vote openly by a show of hands.
Where is the democracy and the good industrial practice when it is possible to end an industrial dispute with only a show of hands?
It is as undemocratic to return to work on a show of hands as it is to strike on a show of hands.
The show of hands at mass meetings is a distant memory.
We do not, for instance, differ on the need for voting to be by ballot paper rather than by a show of hands.
The same thing happens in a meeting when there is a show of hands.
It is to be by a show of hands unless challenged, and is then to be by the character of the holding.
