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elected

[ ih-lek-tid ]

adjective

  1. chosen by vote, as for an office ( appointed ):

    an elected official.



noun

  1. the elected. elect ( def 10 ).
  2. a politician, officer, or official who has been chosen by vote:

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • -·𳦳· adjective
  • ܲ··𳦳· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of elected1

First recorded in 1550–60; elect + -ed 2
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It is an excerpt from an August 1967 letter from Ronald Reagan, who had been elected the governor of California six months prior, to Glenn Dumke, the chancellor of the California State University system.

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Jones was elected to the first Assembly as it then was in 1999, as the Plaid Cymru member for Ceredigion, a seat she has represented since.

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Wisconsin voters elected a Democratic judge to serve on the state supreme court, roundly rejecting a Musk-backed Republican candidate by almost 10 percentage points.

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The Iranian president was elected last year with a promise to revive the economy and improve Iranians' daily lives.

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Challenging an elected sheriff can be a difficult task.

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