Question of the Day #289

"Swedish prime minister ousted after losing confidence vote"
From the headline of this article at The Guardian.

上記の文で、confidence voteの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "confidence vote" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


信任投票

しかしながら、vote of confidenceの方が一般的です。この場合は、見出しということで短い書き方を使ったのでしょう。また、Googleで検索するとconfidence voteは、英国の方で使用されることが多いようです。

不信任投票は、vote of no confidenceです。

Answer

Merriam-Webster does not contain the phrase confidence vote, but it does contain vote of confidence :

 a formal process in which people (such as the members of a legislature) vote in order to indicate whether or not they support a leader, government, etc.

It goes without saying that these are the same thing, but I think confidence vote was used in this instance because it was a headline requiring a shorter length.

Examples

• But the Labour Party decided to turn the motion into a confidence vote on John Major.
• "At the moment a government can lose a confidence vote by a majority of one." The Sun (2010)
• The government held a vote of confidence and lost/won it.