Synonyms for elect
ɪˈlɛktelect

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1. electnoun

   Antonyms:
   reprobate

2. electnoun

   Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President-elect.

   Antonyms:
   reprobate

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1. elect

   Prefer indicates a state of desire and approval; choose, an act of will. Prudence or generosity may lead one to choose what he does not prefer. Select implies a careful consideration of the reasons for preference and choice. Among objects so nearly alike that we have no reason to prefer any one to another we may simply choose the nearest, but we could not be said to select it. Aside from theology, elect is popularly confined to the political sense; as, a free people elect their own rulers. Cull, from the Latin colligere, commonly means to collect, as well as to select. In a garden we cull the choicest flowers.

   Synonyms:
   choose, cull, pick, pick out, prefer, select

   Antonyms:
   cast away, cast out, decline, disclaim, dismiss, leave, refuse, reject, repudiate, throw aside

   Preposition:
   Choose from or from among the number; choose out of the army; choose between (or betwixt) two; among many; choose for the purpose.

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1. electadjective

   Synonyms:
   elite, choice, accepted, chosen

   Antonyms:
   rejected, reprobate

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1. chosen, electadjective

   an exclusive group of people

   "one of the elect who have power inside the government"

   Synonyms:
   chosen

   Antonyms:
   outgoing, unselected

2. elect, eliteadjective

   selected as the best

   "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"

   Synonyms:
   elect(ip), elite

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

3. elect(ip)verb

   elected but not yet installed in office

   "the president elect"

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

4. electverb

   select by a vote for an office or membership

   "We elected him chairman of the board"

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

5. electverb

   choose

   "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically"

   Antonyms:
   outgoing, unselected

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1. electverb

   Synonyms:
   CHOOSE, select, cull, pick, pick out, make choice of

2. electadjective

   Synonyms:
   chosen, selected, picked, choice

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1. List of paraphrases for "elect":

   choose, election, elects, select, opt, elected, elections, pick, electoral

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1. Al Sharpton:

   Black Georgia electing Black Georgia first Black Senator-elect and first Jewish American Senator-elect in our time is a sign of a new America. We are bringing America back to where we ought to be and moving forward towards change.

2. Matt Borges:

   Nowadays it seems like in political campaigns, people want to hold your political experience against you. ' You've been there too long ; You're part of the problem,' this has been a good demonstration of why it matters to elect someone who has got a lot of experience.

3. Robert Luckett:

   People in the city of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba were demanding that they have some representation, and until that time... it was guaranteed that as long as the city was majority White and people who voted were majority White, it was guaranteed to elect three White men in a city that was majority Black or close to it.

4. Kevin McCarthy:

   We can’t do anything. We can’t even swear in the other members until we elect a speaker.

5. Tom Rice:

   I think Donald Trump is the past and Nancy Mace need to move on, i think Donald Trump was Donald Trump. Donald Trump got a lot of good things done, Donald Trump lifted a lot of people, but I think Donald Trump's the past. Nancy Mace need to move on to elect somebody else. The next president, I believe, needs to be somebody who will pull America together rather than ripping it apart.