elect
IPA: ɪɫˈɛkt
noun
- One chosen or set apart.
- (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
verb
- (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
- (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election
adjective
- (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
- Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
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Examples of "elect" in Sentences
- The president is elected by the people.
- The man voted for the potenate in the election.
- Most people voted for the presidential election.
- The President is the elected head of the Academy.
- The president is accountable to the people in an election.
- The president of the Republic was elected by the Congress.
- The election was by a form of the single transferable vote.
- The Old Testament applies the term elect, or chosen, only to the
- The election is conducted under the Single transferable vote voting system.
- The election was conducted under the Single transferable vote voting system.
- Tomorrow, I will cast my vote to re elect Barack Obama as president of the US.
- The president-elect is planning to fly to Washington on Sunday, and arrive in the evening.
- We saw reason to believe that Abraham's case was a type of all other elect -- _elect for the service of others_.
- The president-elect is motorcading from one urgent meeting to another, creating new posts - including an efficiency adviser - to get it all under control.
- Standard procedure also includes banning low-altitude flights over public places where a president or president-elect is located, including along train routes.
- The president-elect is expected to name [Cass] Sunstein — his friend and informal adviser — to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a transition official said late Wednesday.
- We are in a world in which the incoming Democratic President-elect is being asked questions by journalists about whether or not he has an answer for economist Paul Krugman on whether or not our New New Deal is big enough.
- Which, when it was full, they drew to shore -- for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down -- expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away -- literally,