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elect

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Related topics: Voting
e·lect1 /ɪˈlekt/ ●●○ S3 W3 verb [transitiveT]
1  PPVto choose someone for an official position by voting 選舉，推選
the country’s first democratically elected government
該國第一個民主選舉産生的政府
a new method for electing the leader of the party
選舉黨領導的新方式
be elected to something
He was elected to a US state governorship.
他當選美國州長。
be elected (as) president/leader/mayor etc
In 1768, John Wilkes was elected as their Member of Parliament.
1768年，約翰·威爾克斯當選爲他們地區的議員。
n Grammar
Elect is often passive in this meaning.
► see thesaurus at vote
2  elect to do something formalCHOOSE to choose to do something 選擇做某事
You can elect to delete the message or save it.
你可以選擇删除或者保存信息。
Examples from the Corpus
elect to do something• In a magnanimous fit of estate planning, Cook elects to divide the farm between his three daughters.• No permission is required to photograph the monoline, unless you elect to do this inside a station.• The committee elected not to fire Johnson.• Out of which I was elected to help him rise.• In 1972, at the age of 23, he was elected to parliament.• He then elects to take his new pet to California, but he only has five days to unload his pachyderm.• But both say the loan was paid off by December 1993, almost a year before Gentry was elected to the council.• No new members were elected to the party central committee.• More blacks have been elected to the state legislature, and a black also heads the Dade county commission.
Examples from the Corpus
elect• The founder-members numbered eleven, and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected.• Britain must now throw this opportunity away by electing a Labour government.• Under any such setup, voters elect a leader who espouses a program.• I think we should start by electing a new chairman.• One is the Legislature, whose members are elected by the people to enact laws.• Ken Livingstone was elected mayor of London in May 2000.• Dudayev declared Chechnya independent in 1991, shortly after he was elected president.• In return for getting Democrats elected, Sweeney will be expecting favors.• Prior to 1981, most companies elected to use an accelerated method of depreciation for tax purposes.
democratically elected• The press was horrified and questioned whether Britain was still governable under a democratically elected administration.• The politician may have been democratically elected but the politician does not have the same experience as the career official.• S.-backed coup which overthrew a democratically elected government.• They saw their democratically elected president overthrown by a military coup.
elect2 adjectiveadj
president-elect/governor-elect/prime minister-elect etc PGOthe person who has been elected as president etc, but who has not yet officially started their job 候任[當選而尚未就任的]總統/州長/首相等
From Longman Business Dictionary
electe·lect1 /ɪˈlekt/ verb [transitiveT]
to choose someone for an official position by voting
the country’s first democratically elected president
elect somebody to
John Brown was elected to the board last year.
elect somebody (as) president/chairman etc
Steven J. Shapiro was elected vice president, corporate planning.
—elected adjectiveadj
an elected member of the board
electelect2 adjectiveadj
chairman/president elect a person who has been elected to a particular job but has not yet started doing it
the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce’s chairman elect
Origin elect1
(1400-1500) Latin electus, past participle of eligere “to choose”

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