0 present participle of elect --
1 to decide on or choose, especially to choose a person for a particular job, by voting: --
She elected to take early retirement instead of moving to the new location.
[ + to infinitive ] The group elected one of their members to be their spokesperson.
[ + noun ] She was elected Chair of the Board of Governors.
[ + as + noun ] We elected him as our representative.
The example of people 'electing ' where to live in old age may also signify new types of integration, solidarity and belonging.
The governor's forces again broke into the hall, this time electing a set of bogus officers.
For one thing, it violated the principle of the separation of powers which called for independent means of electing each branch of government.
A conference committee of both houses is composed of 20 members, each house electing half of them.
In particular, we examine a sample of firms with boards electing to replace outside directors' defined benefit pensions with increases in equity compensation.
In 1652 ninety-seven citizen goldsmiths filed a petition questioning procedure for electing wardens which they felt was unfair and irregular.
As the work of the convention proceeded, the delegates were still in a quandary about a suitable method for electing a president.
The party dummy allows me to assess the extent to which representation occurs via voters electing candidates from the party closer to their views.
