ELECTION
\ɪlˈɛkʃən], \ɪlˈɛkʃən], \ɪ_l_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ELECTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession"
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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"
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the status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his election"
By Princeton University
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The act of choosing; choice; selection.
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The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
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Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
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Discriminating choice; discernment.
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The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
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Those who are elected.
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Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the five points of Calvinism.
By Oddity Software
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The act of choosing; choice; selection.
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The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
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Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
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Discriminating choice; discernment.
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The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
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Those who are elected.
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Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; - one of the five points of Calvinism.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of choosing a person for some office or position; the selection by divine choice for salvation.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act of electing or choosing: the public choice of a person for office: freewill: (theol.) the predetermination of certain persons as objects of divine mercy: (B.) those who are elected.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Act of choosing; choice the act of choosing a person to fill an office or employment power of choosing or selecting; voluntary preference; liberty to take or reject discriminating choice; distinction between divine choice; predetermination of God with regard to the subjects of his grace;—those who are chosen public choice of representatives or members time or day of electing members.
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