electee

6.0

A person chosen for a job or office who has not started yet

noun
/ɪˈlɛkti/

: elegido

Ironically, if you got a 75-25 split, the electee needs to be respectful and not summarily dismissive of the 25%.

Examples

As an electee to the school board, she is excited to start her term and make a difference.
And he's retiring this year, and the new electee will almost certainly be the Republican candidate who is possibly worse than Jim Inhofe... ouch.

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He promised, like so many electees, that he would bring our troops home immediately; he has not. He also is sending another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Hello, doesn't anyone?

Blog text (8)
The new mayor is an electee, eagerly awaiting the official inauguration next month.
The committee announced the electee for the scholarship, who will receive their award at the ceremony next week.

Synonyms

designee

vselectee

Formal

4 6.1

A person officially chosen for a particular job

is chosen but has not yet officially started or been inducted

selectee

vselectee

3 6.7

A person who staff choose for extra security checks at airports

is chosen but specifically before any official induction or start

acceptee

vselectee

7.7

A person chosen to join a program, job, or club

is chosen for a role but not yet officially started or inducted

How Official

officeholder

Formal

8 4.4

electee

6.0

nominee

670 3.6

candidate

564 2.3

Surface Forms

electee singular

electees plural

Morphology

electee = elect (transparent) = elect + ee

Formed by the productive English suffix '-ee' meaning 'one who is elected/receives the action', so the meaning follows directly from 'elect' + '-ee'.

Etymology

Electee comes from elect, meaning 'chosen', and the ending -ee, used in words like employee to show the person who receives an action. So an electee is someone who has been chosen for a position or honor but has not yet started.