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Synonyms for elect

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for elect

to select by vote for an office

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to make a choice from a number of alternatives

singled out in preference

one that is selected

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Synonyms for elect

an exclusive group of people

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select by a vote for an office or membership

choose

selected as the best

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elected but not yet installed in office

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Yes, she is qualified to be president, and she has been elected multiple times therefore clearly electable.
But that doesn't mean he'll be able to escape the logic of what they mean: the electable pulling Imran in directions he'd rather not be seen going, the no-name winner doing nothing for him because he doesn't need to.
The only way to truly know if something is electable is to fight for it and vote for it.
"We need to get the party into a strong and electable position as fast as we can, and get back to focusing on what matters to the voters."
Of course, whether he is an electable leader, come another general election, is quite another matter.
LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has warned her party against swinging too far to the left or right as she stressed there was a mountain to climb to become electable again.
LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has warned her party against swinging too far to the left or right, as she stressed there was a mountain to climb to become electable again.
Labour's John Woodcock hit out at Tory David Morris for lobbying the Government for a tunnel under Morecambe Bay, saying his constituents will think he was making something up to be more electable.
"The PTI will approach electable politicians from each constituency, but they will be routed through the authorised party channels only," The Express Tribune quoted Khan, as saying.
It's just a shame that Michael Gove seems to have a sharper grasp of what the Labour Party needs to do to make itself electable than he does about what people expect of him as education secretary.
THESE latest revelations about Griffin's links with a band of thugs who lynched black and Jewish citizens will remove any remaining idea the BNP is electable in any way, shape or form.
But the intersection didn't end there: In an interview with Corriere della Sera magazine, Gore opined that "Berlusconi would be electable in the U.S.