Usually means: Election to fill a vacancy.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word by-election:

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  1. by-election: Merriam-Webster
  2. by-election: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. by-election: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. by-election, by-election: Collins English Dictionary
  5. by-election: Vocabulary.com
  6. By-Election, By-election, by-election: Wordnik
  7. by-election: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. by-election: Wiktionary
  9. by-election: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. by-election: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. By-election, by-election: Dictionary.com
  12. By-election: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. By-election: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. by-election: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. By-election: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. by-election: FreeDictionary.org
  17. by-election: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. by-election: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. by-election: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. By-election: Glossary of Election Terms

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Similar:
subelection, writ, parish seat, returning officer, election, leadership spill, midnight appointment, safe seat, seat, indirect election, more...

Opposite:
general election, national election, regular election

Phrases:
2022 Punjab provincial by-election, 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election, 2022 Wakefield by-election, 2016 Witney by-election, 2017 Northcote state by-election, more...

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Similar:
subelection, writ, parish seat, returning officer, election, leadership spill, midnight appointment, safe seat, seat, indirect election, more...

Opposite:
general election, national election, regular election

Phrases:
2022 Punjab provincial by-election, 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election, 2022 Wakefield by-election, 2016 Witney by-election, 2017 Northcote state by-election, 2022 Fannie Bay by-election, more...



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