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词汇 elect
释义 elect
verb[ T ]
uk /iˈlekt/ us /ɪˈlekt/
B2
to decide on or choose, especially to choose a person for a particular job, by voting: 选举,推选
The President is elected for a four-year term of office.总统任期四年。
[ + as+ noun ]We elected him as our representative.我们选他当代表。
[ + noun ]She was elected Chair of the Board of Governors.她被选为董事会主席。
[ + to infinitive ]The group elected one of their members to be their spokesperson.该团体选出了他们的一名成员代表他们发言。
 elect to do somethingformal
to choose to do a particular thing: 选择做…
She elected to take early retirement instead of moving to the new location.她不想搬去新的工作地点,就选择了提前退休。
Synonyms
choose
pick(CHOOSE)
select
She was elected as leader of the campaign group.她被推举为竞选小组的领导。
He was elected in the normal manner.他按照正规程序当选。
He was elected as party leader in 2010.
Representatives were elected by ballot.代表们是通过无记名投票选举出来的。
Politicians should be accountable to the public who elected them.政界人士应对他们的选民负责。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elections
absentee
absentee ballot
absentee vote
absentee voter
absentee voting
enfranchisement
entrance poll
exit poll
first-past-the-post
flip
proportional representation
proxy
proxy vote
proxy voter
proxy voting
vote something through
voting
voting booth
voting machine
voting slip

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Taking and choosing
Decisions and deciding

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electable
elect
noun[ plural ]
uk /iˈlekt/ us /ɪˈlekt/
 the electformal
in the Bible, people who are chosen by God(《圣经》中所称的)上帝的选民
humorous
any group of people who have been specially chosen for their particular qualities特权集团;特殊阶层
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The Bible - people, events & places
Adam
annunciation
apocalypse
apostolic
Eden
epistle
epistolary
evangelist
Judgment Day
Madonna
Promised Land
psalm
resurrection
the ark
the disciplesphrase
the last judgment
the Last Supper
the Magi
the Second Coming
the Ten Commandments

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Organizations - position & status
Groups of people
elect
adjective[ after noun ]
uk /iˈlekt/ us /ɪˈlekt/
 president elect, prime minister elect, etc.
the person who has been voted to be president, prime minister, etc. but has not yet started work: 候任总统/首相等
The president elect has been preparing to take office in January.候任总统一直在为一月份的就职做准备。

elect | American Dictionary


elect
verb
us/ɪˈlekt/
to decide on or choose, esp. to choose a person for a particular job by voting:
[ T ]We elect representatives every two years.
[ T ]She was elected to the board of directors.
[ + to infinitive ]He was invited to join them at the concert, but he elected to stay home and watch the ballgame.
elect
adjective[ only after n, not gradable ]
us/ɪˈlekt/
(of a person) who has won a vote but not yet taken office:
the president-elect

-elect | Business English


-elect
suffix
used after the title of an official job to refer to someone who has been chosen by vote to do that job, but who has not yet started doing it:
Mr Theroux is chairman-elect of the Promotion Marketing Association.

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designateadjective
elect
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪˈlekt/us
to choose a person to do a particular job by voting:
elect sb as sthHe was elected unanimously as Chairman.
elect sb to sthIn 2006, she was elected to the board of directors before taking over as president in 2009.
elect sb sthHe was elected executive vice president and chief financial officer.
a democratically/newly/recently elected official
 elect to do sth
formal
to choose to do a particular thing:
The building society elected to become a stock market company in 2008.

Examples of elect


elect
After handing over power to elected civilians in 1969, the military struck again in 1972.
The type of political system established after the return to competitive electoral politics had an impact on the number of women elected in both countries.
Now, clearly, liberal democratic states can and do use coercive means in order to implement policies that have been agreed amongst democratically elected representatives.
Newly elected men wrestled with consciences or argued with colleagues and immediately declined or subsequently resigned the proferred position.
The second term captures the possibility that either the new price or quality of care after regionalization influences the probability of electing surgery.
In each district, candidates will differ substantially and it will be easy to gauge the impact they might have on the policy outcome if elected.
Then there are the government actors, who want to maximize their chances of getting elected.
In addition, there are many examples where the elected councillor serves as part of the chief's isigungu as well.
Like elected village chiefs, the currently nominated mayors find themselves in an ambiguous situation.
As elected members of the legislature, elected representatives are expected to represent their voters in the process of lawmaking.
The involvement of top-level, elected officials in the aid allocation process, however, is usually limited.
Every modern democracy has elected legislatures and political parties, each of which is a vehicle for a specific type of representation.
The result is that the left party is elected to implement policies that a majority of voters do not want.
Newly elected officials do not want to spend the capital they have 'earned' in the election by staying the course.
The papers reviewed have focused on indirect communication - from voters to elected politicians through voting and from politicians to voters through campaign fund-raising.
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