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词汇 sortition
释义 sortition
noun[ U ]
 politics specializeduk /sɔːˈtɪʃ.ən/ us /sɔːrˈtɪʃ.ən/
the practice of selecting officials where everybody has an equal chance of being selected:
The most striking thing about Greek democracy was that the administration was organized on the basis of sortition.
My preferred solution is to stop electing senators, and instead appoint them using sortition.
Officers were elected by sortition, a kind of lottery whereby the offices were divided among the qualified.
Appointing committee members by sortition would be more representative.
The new system for choosing town leaders was based on a lottery system, also known as sortition.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chance and randomness
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aleatory
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crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
long shot
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
randomly
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
stumble into something

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