elect
/ɪˈlɛkt/ verb B2- To choose or make a decision (to do something).
- (Of a group) to officially select one or more candidates in an election to hold office.
He/she/it elects · Past elected · Past participle elected · -ing form electing
Verb forms
- Base form
- elect
- He/she/it
- elects
- Past
- elected
- Past participle
- elected
- -ing form
- electing
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A MONKEY once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King.
And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla’s disapproval.
Anne intended taking up the Second Year work being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same.
Franz de Quesnel, baron d’Épinay.” He, as well as the notary, that there might be no mistake in the person, gave all his titles to the bridegroom elect.
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