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election

election

87 1.0
An act of choosing someone or something after thinking about it
  • noun
  • /ɪˈlɛkʃən/
translation icon : elección
  • After much debate, the committee finally decided to hold a special election to fill the vacant council seat.
  • win an election
  • hold an election
  • first election

He said her whole act about how the election was stolen is a giant grift.

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Examples

  • Voter turnout was exceptionally high during the last election, as many people were eager to make their voices heard.

  • The election is coming up.

  • And the results are in for our class election.

  • There's an election coming up.

  • It is an election year.

  • We'd like to say that almost 50 percent of us voted for you in the last election.

  • If the U.S. presidential election were held in Germany, Obama would win by a landslide.

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  • This is Election Day.

  • The election for the new mayor will take place next month, allowing the community to choose its leader.

Synonyms

choice
vselection
1.0

One thing you pick or the act of picking from several things

highlights a deliberate decision specifically not just any casual choosing
voting
vselection
588 1.4

A way of choosing between options, often by ballot or raising a hand

focuses on a deliberate decision broadly not limited to formal preference expression
selection
vselection
155 1.8

The person or thing chosen for a specific purpose

emphasizes a deliberate decision rather than general choosing
balloting
vselection
11 5.5

Voting in secret to choose between people or ideas

describes deliberate choice more generally rather than a specific secret procedure

Compounds

117 2.0

The day when people vote to choose leaders

A vote across a country to choose most members of the national government

12 3.2

An early election where party voters choose candidates for the general election

12 3.6

Happening after an election

Illegal actions to change votes or the result of an election

4 6.0

An election to fill a public office that becomes empty between general elections

4 3.9

An official group that organizes and makes sure elections are fair

An area of a town or city where people vote at one polling place

7.4

A vote to choose someone for a political seat between regular elections

election threshold
  • Specialized
6.7

A minimum percentage of votes a political party must get to win any seats in parliament

9.9

A choice a surviving spouse makes to take either what the will gives or the legal share of the estate

The time before an election when candidates campaign and people debate

A legal document that orders an election to fill a vacant political office

How Formal

election
87 1.0
selection
171 1.9
choice
1.0
pick
283 1.0

Surface Forms

election singular
elections plural

Morphology

election = elect (transparent) = elect + ion

Regular nominalization of the verb 'elect' by the productive suffix '-ion' yielding the act or process of choosing.

Etymology

Election comes from the Latin word eligere, which means 'to choose', and it has the same root as select. So an election is the act of choosing or picking something carefully.