| query | If you e____ to do something, you choose to do it.If you elect to do something, you choose to do it. After six months he elected to take early retirement |
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| word | elect |
| full-definition | verb When people elect someone, they choose that person to represent them, by voting for them. The people of the Philippines have voted to elect a new president. Manchester College elected him Principal in 1956. The country is about to take a radical departure by electing a woman as its new president. ...the country's democratically elected president. If you elect to do something, you choose to do it. After six months he elected to take early retirement adjective Elect is added after words such as ' president ' or ' governor ' to indicate that a person has been elected to the post but has not officially started to carry out the duties involved . ...the date when the president-elect takes office. |
| inflections | electselectingelectedelected |
| cefr-level | B2 |
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