unelected

Examples

• All

• Western critics might dispute the legitimacy of such an unelected body.

  Academic text (1993)

• But what justifies assigning so much power to a small group of unelected officials, nowadays mostly economists?

  Academic text (1997)

• What are the limits to the measures that can be taken by these various institutions, elected and unelected during a public health emergency?

  Megyn Kelly

• Although, I could never live in a country with an unelected ruler like the Queen.

  Holmes & Watson (2018)

• We can no longer be slaves to an unelected majority of five people on the Supreme Court of the United States.

  Academic text (2000)

• And the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.

• The European project has always been a game played by unelected political elites and foisted on the people.

  Blog text (2)

• Real power resides with township officials, who are unelected and who control village finances.

  Academic text (2014)

• Of its three branches of government, one—arguably paramount—is headed by nine unelected men and women with life tenure.

  Academic text (1997)

• Ford was about to become the first, and so far only, unelected chief executive of the United States.

Synonyms

A

appointive

vsunelected

• Formal

1 7.5

A job or position given by a person in power, not by election

is limited to absence of a vote and does not exclude hiring situations

N

nonelected

vsunelected

1 7.0

A position that is filled by appointment instead of by vote

is the single word unhyphenated form of this adjective

N

nonelective

vsunelected

7.2

A position filled by appointment rather than by election

is the form with an -ive ending rather than the -ed or hyphenated form

N

non-elective

vsunelected

• Formal

7.1

A position filled by appointment instead of by election

is the unhyphenated single-word form used for the same idea

Antonyms

E

elected

2.8

Chosen by voters to hold public office

How Chosen

elected

2.8

unelected

16 4.4

appointed

• Formal

3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology