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Definition of elect
1 : carefully selected : chosen
2 : chosen for salvation through divine mercy
3a : chosen for office or position but not yet installed the president-electb : chosen for marriage at some future time the bride-elect
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Examples of elect in a Sentence
this elect body of students represents the best that the nation's high schools have to offer
Recent Examples of elect from the Web
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Some of the profits from the Kickstarter campaign and Warren's figure sales will go toward Emily's List, a nonprofit organization helping elect pro-choice Democratic women to office.
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Origin and Etymology of elect
Middle English, from Latin electus, past participle of eligere to select, from e- + legere to choose — more at legend
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Definition of elect
elect
1 : one chosen or set apart (as by divine favor)
2 elects plural : a select or exclusive group of people
Examples of elect in a Sentence
the members of this all-American team are the elect of collegiate football
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Attorney Douglas Ballantine will serve a one-year term as president-elect effective Saturday, according to a press release.
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After listening to the president-elect talk about his foreign policy plans, Joe was asked by a disappointed Mr. Trump the next day if Mika could also visit Mar-a-Lago that night.
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The column said the president-elect invited them to dinner on Dec. 30.
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Putin had been identified by the CIA as guiding the hacking campaign, with the explicit goal of helping elect Donald Trump, as early as August.
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Shortly thereafter, the president-elect assembled a cabinet full of Goldman Sachs veterans, Wall Street tycoons, and his fellow silver-spoon-sucking billionaires.
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Shareholders also will vote whether to re-elect Munoz and 14 other board members and whether to approve the company’s executive-compensation plan.
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Happer was among those who were invited to meet with the president-elect at Trump Tower before the inauguration.
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James Robinson-Parran, who ran unsuccessfully for village clerk in April, joined then clerk-elect Vicki Scaman in calling for the item to be tabled.
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First Known Use of elect
15th century
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Definition of elect
transitive verb
1 : to select by vote for an office, position, or membership elected her class president
2 : to make a selection of will elect an academic program
3 : to choose (something, such as a course of action) especially by preference might elect to sell the business
intransitive verb
: to make a selection
Examples of elect in a Sentence
He hopes to be elected to the committee.
I've elected to study French as my foreign language.
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Once the card was installed, the user could elect whether to give control of her machine to its standard 6502 CPU or to the Z80; the card contained circuitry to allow the Z80 to use the Apple II's standard memory and other peripherals.
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The event was sponsored by the political action committee, Raising Our Sisters’ Assets (ROSA PAC), dedicated to electing women of color.
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The students began the year by electing club officers and designing the club's T-shirt.
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Although parents were elected to leadership roles last week in the new STEPS Parent-Teacher-Student Association, group president Janine McDonough said students will take an active role in planning activities throughout the school year.
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This ordinance would have allowed Canton's elected officials to make that guarantee.
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If these benefits were rolled back—say, if a state elected not to require that preventive services be covered under the Senate’s new legislation—out-of-pocket costs could return and rates could fall back to pre-ACA levels.
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The best way to prevent such hacking is to elect the president by popular vote.
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Sigaty was first elected in 2006 along with Republican Greg Fox and Democrats Jen Terassa and Calvin Ball.
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Origin and Etymology of elect
Middle English, from Latin electus
ELECT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of elect for English Language Learners
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: having been elected : chosen for a public office but not yet holding that office
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Definition of elect for English Language Learners
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: people who belong to a special group and have privileges that other people do not have
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Definition of elect for English Language Learners
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: to select (someone) for a position, job, etc., by voting
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: to choose to do (something)
ELECT Defined for Kids
Definition of elect for Students
elected
;electing
1 : to select by vote elect a senator
2 : to make a choice The team elected to kick off.
Definition of elect for Students
: chosen for office but not yet holding office the president-elect
Law Dictionary
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Legal Definition of elect
1 : to select by vote for an office, position, or membership
2 : to make a selection of elected her statutory share over the gift under the will
intransitive verb
: to choose an elective share the right of a spouse to elect against the will
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