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词汇 electing
释义 electing
present participle ofelect
elect
verb[ T ]
uk /iˈlekt/ us /iˈlekt/
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

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Taking and choosing
Decisions and deciding

Related word


electable

Examples of electing


electing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The present system of electing individuals is considered seriously flawed given the low voter turnouts.
The psychological trauma of waiting results in many patients electing for private referral.
The second term captures the possibility that either the new price or quality of care after regionalization influences the probability of electing surgery.
As one may argue that if the practice of electing village chiefs proves relatively successful, why not try elections for rural township leaders?
Frequently one political group cleared all its opponents from the square before electing the returning officers.
It was to notables like these that the task of electing bishops and parish priests to the constitutional church was entrusted in 1791.
The chances of electing a cross-pressured member declined considerably over time.
The party dummy allows me to assess the extent to which representation occurs via voters electing candidates from the party closer to their views.
As the work of the convention proceeded, the delegates were still in a quandary about a suitable method for electing a president.
In 1652 ninety-seven citizen goldsmiths filed a petition questioning procedure for electing wardens which they felt was unfair and irregular.
In particular, we examine a sample of firms with boards electing to replace outside directors' defined benefit pensions with increases in equity compensation.
A conference committee of both houses is composed of 20 members, each house electing half of them.
For one thing, it violated the principle of the separation of powers which called for independent means of electing each branch of government.
The governor's forces again broke into the hall, this time electing a set of bogus officers.
The example of people 'electing ' where to live in old age may also signify new types of integration, solidarity and belonging.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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