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{
"term": "elect",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "elect",
"heSheIt": "elects"
},
"pastSimple": "elected",
"pastParticiple": "elected",
"ingForm": "electing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to choose somebody to do a particular job by voting for them",
"sensetop": "elect somebody/somethingelect somebody to somethingelect somebody (as) something",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Voters will elect a new president on 30 March next year.",
"contextForm": "elect somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "the **newly/democratically elected** government"
},
{
"text": "an **elected representative/official/assembly**"
},
{
"text": "What changes will he make if he **gets elected**?"
},
{
"text": "She became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate.",
"contextForm": "elect somebody to something"
},
{
"text": "He was elected (as) MP for Oxford East.",
"contextForm": "elect somebody (as) something"
},
{
"text": "The party first elected her leader in 2017."
},
{
"text": "Five were successful, three being elected unopposed."
},
{
"text": "He was elected to Parliament in 1997."
},
{
"text": "It was decided that the president should be elected directly in free elections."
},
{
"text": "Members of the council are elected annually."
},
{
"text": "She has been elected to Parliament."
},
{
"text": "They make their own rules and elect their own leaders."
},
{
"text": "Each officer shall be elected for one term of two years."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["annually", "locally", "nationally"],
"preposition": ["to"],
"phrases": ["be elected", "get elected", "be declared elected"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to choose to do something",
"sensetop": "elect to do something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Increasing numbers of people elect to work from home nowadays."
},
{
"text": "Several of the tenants have elected to move to smaller premises."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekt/",
"audio": "el/elect/elect__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekts/",
"audio": "el/elect/elects__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪd/",
"audio": "el/elect/elected__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪŋ/",
"audio": "el/elect/electing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekt/",
"audio": "el/elect/elect__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekts/",
"audio": "el/elect/elects__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪd/",
"audio": "el/elect/elected__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪŋ/",
"audio": "el/elect/electing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’."
}