0 to decide on or choose, especially to choose a person for a particular job, by voting:
[ + as + noun ] We elected him as our representative.
[ + noun ] She was elected Chair of the Board of Governors.
[ + to infinitive ] The group elected one of their members to be their spokesperson.
She elected to take early retirement instead of moving to the new location.
1 in the Bible, people who are chosen by God
2 the person who has been voted to be president, prime minister, etc. but has not yet started work:
3 to decide on or choose, esp. to choose a person for a particular job by voting:
4 (of a person) who has won a vote but not yet taken office:
the president-elect
5 used after the title of an official job to refer to someone who has been chosen by vote to do that job, but who has not yet started doing it:
Mr Theroux is chairman-elect of the Promotion Marketing Association.
6 to choose a person to do a particular job by voting:
7 to choose to do a particular thing:
Representatives were elected by ballot.
Politicians should be accountable to the public who elected them.
After handing over power to elected civilians in 1969, the military struck again in 1972.
The type of political system established after the return to competitive electoral politics had an impact on the number of women elected in both countries.
Now, clearly, liberal democratic states can and do use coercive means in order to implement policies that have been agreed amongst democratically elected representatives.
