Usually means: Choose someone for a position.
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  1. elect: Merriam-Webster
  2. elect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elect, elect: Wordnik
  7. -elect, elect, the elect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -elect, elect: Wiktionary
  9. elect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elect, elect, the elect: Dictionary.com
  13. elect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The elect, -elect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Elect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. elect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. elect: Rhymezone
  18. elect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. elect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. elect: FreeDictionary.org
  21. elect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. elect: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. elect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. elect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  4. Elect: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
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  1. Elect: Catholic Encyclopedia

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  1. Elect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One chosen or set apart.
noun:  (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
verb:  (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
verb:  (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election
adjective:  (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
adjective:  Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

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