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elect

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • \i-ˈlekt\
    • /ɪˈlekt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \i-ˈlekt\

Definitions of elect word

  • noun elect Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting. 1
  • transitive verb elect appoint by voting 1
  • intransitive verb elect choose 1
  • adjective elect selected for office 1
  • verb elect When people elect someone, they choose that person to represent them, by voting for them. 0
  • verb elect If you elect to do something, you choose to do it. 0

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Parts of speech for Elect

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

elect popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

elect usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for elect

verb elect

  • pick — to cast (a shuttle).
  • select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
  • choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
  • accept — If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
  • admit — If you admit that something bad, unpleasant, or embarrassing is true, you agree, often unwillingly, that it is true.

adjective elect

  • future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
  • chosen — Chosen is the past participle of choose.
  • selected — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.

noun elect

  • glitterati — The fashionable set of people engaged in show business or some other glamorous activity.
  • best — Best is the superlative of good.
  • druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
  • in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
  • carriage trade — trade from the wealthy part of society

Antonyms for elect

verb elect

  • abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • dismiss — to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go: I dismissed the class early.

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