Definition of election

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Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor..

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Precinct :: Precinct (n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct..
Option :: Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Election :: Election (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Refer :: Refer (v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election..
Return :: Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers..
Liveryman :: Liveryman (n.) A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc..
Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..
Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t..
Conclave :: Conclave (n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals..
Return :: Return (n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information..
Tanistry :: Tanistry (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election..
Cooptation :: Cooptation (n.) The act of choosing; selection; choice.
Semibull :: Semibull (n.) A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.
Optometer :: Optometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses..
Anyone :: Anyone (n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words..
Designation :: Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book..
Prelection :: Prelection (n.) A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.
By-election :: By-election (n.) An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election..
Electionered :: Electionered (imp. & p. p.) of Electionee.
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