- plebiscite (on something)
a vote by the people of a country or a region on an issue that is very important synonym referendum公民投票;全民公决 to hold a plebiscite on the country’s future system of government 就国家未来的政府体制举行公民投票
Word Originmid 16th cent. (referring to Roman history): from French plébiscite, from Latin plebiscitum, from plebs, pleb- ‘the common people’ + scitum ‘decree’ (from sciscere ‘vote for’). The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.