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• 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 — [15] To elect somebody is literally to ‘choose them out’ of a range of possibilities. The word comes from ēlectus, the past participle of Latin ēligere ‘pick out, select’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and legere… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• elect — [15] To elect somebody is literally to ‘choose them out’ of a range of possibilities. The word comes from ēlectus, the past participle of Latin ēligere ‘pick out, select’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex ‘out’ and legere… …   Word origins

• put somebody in — ˌput sbˈin derived to elect a political party to govern a country • Who will the voters put in this time? Main entry: ↑putderived …   Useful english dictionary

• elected — elect e‧lect 1 [ɪˈlekt] verb [transitive] 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)… …   Financial and business terms

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• Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Fellows — The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) may elect somebody to the position of Fellow, the highest grade of membership, for service to the RAOU and to ornithology. Fellows of the RAOU are entitled to use the letters FRAOU after their… …   Wikipedia

• Comparison of instant runoff voting to other voting systems — This article is a comparison of various voting systems with Instant runoff voting (IRV), also called the Alternative Vote , preferential voting and ranked choice voting. Contents 1 Categories 2 Voting system criteria 3 Voting system results …   Wikipedia

• vote — vote1 W3S3 [vəut US vout] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(in election/to support)¦ 2 vote somebody into/out of power/office/parliament etc 3¦(choose for prize)¦ 4¦(money)¦ 5 vote something a success/the best etc 6 I vote ... 7 vote with your wallet 8 vote with your …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• vote in — verb elect in a voting process (Freq. 1) They voted in Clinton • Hypernyms: ↑choose, ↑take, ↑select, ↑pick out • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …   Useful english dictionary

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