meaning of elections
1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
2. 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.
3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
4. Discriminating choice; discernment.
5. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
6. The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
7. Those who are elected.
8. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a
">profession"
Related Words
election | election commission | election day | election district | election fraud | electioneer | electioneerer | electioneering | electionered |
