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UK
/ɪlˈɛkʃən/
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[ US /ɪˈɫɛkʃən/ ]
[ US /ɪˈɫɛkʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
the results of the election will be announced tonight -
the status or fact of being elected
they celebrated his election -
the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
her election of medicine as a profession - the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
How To Use election In A Sentence
- Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
- Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
- The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
- At election time the party needs a lot of voluntary helpers.
- Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
- They are trying to rush through the draft resolution before the general election.
- A third-party group headed by a GOP operative is out with a new Nevada ad spot encouraging Latinos in the state not to cast votes in this year's midterm elections. GOP-Linked 'Latinos For Reform' Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not To Vote (VIDEO)
- But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.