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elect English

Meaning elect meaning

What does elect mean?
Definitions in simple English

elect Verb

— If you elect to do something, you choose to do it or make a decision to do it. I elected to take Geography this semester but I'll be taking Chemistry next semester. — If you elect someone, especially a candidate, you choose them in an election. We elect a president every four years. The new mayor was elected in last year.

elect

— verb select by a vote for an office or membership We elected him chairman of the board — verb choose I elected to have my funds deposited automatically — adjective (= elite) selected as the best an elect circle of artists elite colleges — adjective elected but not yet installed in office the president elect — noun an exclusive group of people one of the elect who have power inside the government

Synonyms elect synonyms

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elect English » English

choose select pick out pick vote opt appoint prefer name designate chosen ballot vote in vote for return nominate cull cast one’s vote winnow take suggest single out show prospective poll point out pick up motion mark manifest indicate future fix elite election display denote demonstrate decide connote co-opt chosen one choice cast assort write in wrap up to be to thrust

Topics elect topics

What do people use elect to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Choose
Social behavior Government Government functions

Election

Conjugation elect conjugation

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elect · verb

Examples elect examples

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Simple sentences

They agreed to elect him as president.
Someday the USA will elect a woman president, and it won't be pretty.
Let's elect Putin once more!
You elect your representative by voting.

Movie subtitles

I summon you to elect a parson. For we have no good shepherd here.
No cops. No, people here elect their own cops.
The government's witness has been murdered. but we elect to proceed.
Yes. What not elect it Mayor of Vasaria?
All right, we'll elect a court then.
Like, for instance, re-elect a sheriff.
Now, should you elect to stay, I'll be back here at the same time tomorrow.
What arm do you elect to bear?
Therefore, elect from axe or blade.
Now who we gonna elect for marshal?
Wisconsin would elect you.
No, I will elect you President of the United States.
You elect judges in the United States?
Here I shall meet her, my bride-elect.
The throne's yours by descent and possession but if this had been a freer time, if people could elect I'd have swept the country.
No, people here elect their own cops.
Anybody in Wales will tell you that the people in this part of the countryside are barbarians. I can't think why a colonel should elect to come and live in a place like this.
Therefore, elect from ax or blade.
I propose. to elect from the delegates of our congress a Cossack War Revolutionary Committee!
The only way you get help here is to elect them.
Captain, why don't we turn this island into a democracy and elect a leader?
We're here to elect two delegates, because a growing population south of the Picketwire entitles us to two.
They will turn back. - The French and Germans will take Rome. and elect a new pope who will be a mere chaplain to the kings.
If you elect to suffer for it, you elect to be a hero.
You demand the president's resignation and break your necks to elect a new president.
Since you ride for the court, Bois-Guilbert, choose first. - What arm do you elect to bear? - I bear mace and chain this day.
Therefore, elect from axe or blade. I choose the axe.
Don't stockholders elect new directors?
On approval of the treasurer's report, let's re-elect the directors.
We will now vote on the motion to re-elect the Board of Directors.
If we don't elect to live in this house it goes to the state as part of a park system.
But we'll present him as our candidate in the elections. and if we elect him, they'll let him out.
If none of you agree with my reasons, then let me go with these people, and I will help you elect a new chief.

News and current affairs

But it will take strong leadership by the president-elect to avoid it.
Perhaps international investors will be grateful to the US for its aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus, which will accelerate sharply when President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.
But, on February 24-25, up to 50 million voters will go to the polls to elect a new parliament, delivering Italy's 62nd government in the last 65 years.
Admittedly, Brazil may soon elect a president that global financial markets do not like; but if international financial markets take precedence over democratic choice, the system is undoubtedly flawed.
The best democratic punishment for politicians is not to re-elect them.
WASHINGTON, DC - On June 17, at his first press conference as Iran's President-elect, Hassan Rowhani broke little new ground in the Islamic Republic's relations with the West.
The 16th Party Congress should in turn elect the 16th Central Committee, Party Congress representatives should be elected by each provincial party congress, and so on.
President-elect Barack Obama is likely to follow suit.
Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the candidates had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.
For example, in various countries, voters have been tempted to elect business tycoons: enough with politicians bickering over selfish interests - let the can-do strongmen take charge and run countries like corporations.
It would, however, have a more lasting impact on democratic development than a dubious process by which a limited number of people go to the polls to elect an ineffectual central government.
American voters would not elect a president who gave no more weight to their interests than to the interests of people living in other countries.
The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.
One hopes that President-elect Obama's all-star economic team will at least adopt a coherent and consistent policy.
Nor could you infer it from the behavior of voters, who seem poised to re-elect President Cristina Kirchner in October.
I wish we could look forward in Europe to a similarly healthy democratic experience next month when voters throughout the European Union elect new members of the European Parliament.
If voters continue to lean toward Lewites and Montealegre, the two candidates could elect more deputies to the National Assembly than the Sandinistas and the PLC combined.
France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.
The new government that voters will most likely elect in September will be confronted with the difficult task of confronting Germans with reality and pushing through the necessary reforms.
Cohabitation could very soon become a problem even in the quasi-democracy of Hong Kong, if voters there on September 12 elect a legislature hostile to Tung Chee-hwa, the territory's Beijing-anointed chief executive, later this month.
Thus, more votes are needed to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP.
It takes more votes to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP, owing to the over-representation of urban Britain and some majority-Labour parts of the country.
If the Greek parliament does not elect a new president by a two-thirds majority in next week's third and final round, it will be dissolved and a snap election will be called.

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