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Elect
elect
(elects, electing, elected) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. When people elect someone, they choose that person to represent them, by voting for them. The people of the Philippines have voted to elect a new president... Manchester College elected him Principal in 1956... The country is about to take a radical departure by electing a woman as its new president. VERB: V n, V n n, V n as n • elected ...the country’s democratically elected president. ADJ: ADJ n 2. If you elect to do something, you choose to do it. (FORMAL) Those electing to smoke will be seated at the rear. VERB: V to-inf 3. Elect is added after words such as ‘president’ or ‘governor’ to indicate that a person has been elected to the post but has not officially started to carry out the duties involved. (FORMAL) ...the date when the president-elect takes office. ADJ: n ADJ
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1.
v. & adj. --v.tr. (usu. foll. by to + infin.) 1 choose (the principles they elected to follow). 2 choose (a person) by vote (elected a new chairman). 3 Theol. (of God) choose (persons) in preference to others for salvation. --adj. 1 chosen. 2 select, choice. 3 Theol. chosen by God. 4 (after a noun designating office) chosen but not yet in office (president elect). Etymology: ME f. L electus past part. of eligere elect- (as E-, legere pick) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
выбирать; принимать решение; выбранный ELECT гл. выбирать, избирать (голосованием) - elect from among themselves ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
3.
1. (the elect) избранные, избранники the elect of the land —- цвет (лучшие люди) страны 2. рел. божьи избранники (также God's elect) 3. избранный; отборный; самый лучший 4. выбранный, отобранный, тщательно подобранный the bride elect —- нареченная невеста 5. также как компонент сложных слов: выбранный (на должность); избранный, но еще не вступивший в должность the mayor elect —- новый (только что избранный) мэр the president-elect —- новый президент (до официального вступления в должность) 6. выбирать, избирать (голосованием) to be elected president —- быть избранным на пост президента he was elected chairman —- его выбрали председателем to be elected into the committee —- быть избранным в комитет he was elected to Parliament —- он был избран в парламент to be elected by ballot —- быть избранным баллотировкой the president of the U.S. is elected for four years —- президент США избирается на четыре года 7. делать выбор, принимать решение I elected to remain —- я решил остаться he elected to say nothing —- он препочел промолчать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
1. adj. избранный (но еще не вступивший в должность) - bride elect 2. noun избранник the elect pl.; collect. - избранные 3. v. 1) избирать; выбирать (голосованием) (to - куда; with - каким-л. числом голосов) After only a year in the sports club, the youngest player was elected to the committee. The Member of Parliament was elected with an increased number of votes. they elected him chairman - они выбрали его председателем he was elected chairman - он был выбран председателем 2) назначать (на должность) 3) решить, предпочесть he elected to remain at home - он предпочел остаться дома Syn: see choose ELECT by ballot голосовать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 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 elected President in 1980.) 2 elect to do sth formal to choose to do something (Purchasers can elect to pay in monthly instalments.) ~2 adj president/governor/prime minister elect the person who has been elected as president etc, but who has not yet officially started their job ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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