Usually means: Formal process to choose representatives.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. election: Merriam-Webster
  2. election: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. election: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. election: Collins English Dictionary
  5. election: Vocabulary.com
  6. Election, election, election, election: Wordnik
  7. election: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. election: Wiktionary
  9. election: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. election: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. election: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. election: Dictionary.com
  13. election: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. election: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Election (Christianity), Election (TV Series), Election (TV series), Election (disambiguation), Election (film), Election (movie), Election (novel), Election, The Election: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Election: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. election: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. election: Rhymezone
  19. election: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. election: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. election: FreeDictionary.org
  22. election: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. election: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. election: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. election: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. election: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Medicare Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. election: Legal dictionary
  7. election: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. election: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Election: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Election: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
noun:  The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
noun:  An option that is selected.
noun:  (archaic) Any conscious choice.
noun:  (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
noun:  (obsolete) Those who are elected.

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