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# elect

«elect» in Mova's school dictionary: **To choose someone for a job or position by voting: The…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (elect, elects, elected, electing); adjective (after a noun: the president elect)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To choose someone for a job or position by voting: The class elected Sam as captain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#m1)

2) (formal) To choose or decide to do something: She elected to stay at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#m2)

3) (adjective) Chosen but not yet started in the job: the president-elect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In civics lessons people elect leaders, mayors and class representatives; in maths, election problems count votes and compare totals. Phrases: «elect a leader», «be elected», «elect to do», «newly elected».

### examples

- Our class elected two school council members. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x1)
- She was elected mayor with 2,000 votes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x2)
- People elect a government by voting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x3)
- He elected to walk rather than take the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x4)
- The newly elected captain made a speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x5)
- If Ana got 14 votes and Ben got 9, Ana was elected by 5 votes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x6)
- At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: election; elector (voter). «Elect» needs votes; «choose» or «pick» is the general word. «Elected to» = decided to (formal).

### In the corpora

- [Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/15/)
- [Councillors are elected by local people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/4/)
- [The council is the local government that looks after roads, parks, bins, libraries and planning, run by elected councillors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/11/)
- [Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/6/)
- [Instead they made a republic, where citizens elected leaders for one year at a time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elect» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elect/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.