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• elect — vt 1: to select by vote for an office, position, or membership 2: to make a selection of elect ed her statutory share over the gift under the will vi: to choose an elective share the right of a spouse to elect against the will …   Law dictionary

• -elect — suffix ► used after the title of an official job to refer to someone who has been chosen by vote to do that job, but who has not yet started doing it: »Mr Theroux is chairman elect of the Promotion Marketing Association. → Compare DESIGNATE(Cf.… …   Financial and business terms

• Elect the Dead — Infobox Album Name = Elect the Dead Type = Album Artist = Serj Tankian Caption = Released = Start date|2007|10|22 Genre = Alternative metal, experimental rock, art rock Length = 45:03 (standard edition) 47:52 (Japan) 59:00 (limited edition) 53:52 …   Wikipedia

• elect — The conversion of a conditional order into a market order. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. elect elect 2 adjective chairman/​president elect a person who has been elected to a particular job but has not yet started doing it: • the… …   Financial and business terms

• elect — I UK [ɪˈlekt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms elect : present tense I/you/we/they elect he/she/it elects present participle electing past tense elected past participle elected *** to choose someone by voting so that they represent you or hold… …   English dictionary

• elect — e|lect1 W3S2 [ıˈlekt] v [T usually passive] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: electus, past participle of eligere to choose ] 1.) to choose someone for an official position by voting ▪ the country s first democratically elected government ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• elect — e|lect1 [ ı lekt ] verb transitive *** to choose someone by voting so that they represent you or hold an official position: Every nation should have a right to elect their own government. elect someone to do something: We were elected to tackle… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• elect — 1 /I lekt/ verb 1 (T) to choose someone for an official position by voting: the country s first democratically elected government | elect sb to: She was elected to Parliament in 1978. | elect sb president/mayor etc: Ronald Reagan was first… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• elect*/*/ — [ɪˈlekt] verb [T] I to choose someone to represent you or to hold an official position, by voting for them Every nation should have a right to elect its own government.[/ex] He was elected to parliament by a large majority.[/ex] Havel was elected …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Official scorer — Booth of the official scorer in Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium (Taiwan) In the game of …   Wikipedia

• Official residence — Contents 1 Africa 1.1  Algeria 1.2  Benin 1.3 & …   Wikipedia