elect
Other forms: elected; electing; elects; electly
To elect is to choose. A group of citizens may elect the next president, or you may just elect to stay home during the blizzard.
Most famously, in the political sense, elect means to choose a person for public office, usually via an election. It also means to choose a particular course in life of major consequence. You probably don't elect to drink Pepsi over Coke, but you do elect to study a particular major at college, or sign up for military service.
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select by a vote for an office or membership
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choose
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selected as the best
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elected but not yet installed in office“the president elect”synonyms:incomingarriving at a place or position
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an exclusive group of people“one of the elect who have power inside the government”synonyms: chosentype of:elite, elite groupa group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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