elect
About 5.37 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun One chosen or set apart.
- noun Someone chosen by God for salvation. One foreordained to Heaven.
- noun One foreordained to Heaven.
- verb To choose or make a decision (to do something).
- verb (Of a group) to officially select one or more candidates in an election to hold office.
- adjective Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
He is the President elect.
- adjective Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Similar words
chosen selected incoming elite select selection choose option choice opt
Often followed by
to a the of their and one him its
Word family
elected electing elects
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