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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-elect en · X

Etymology

From elect.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.
    • The full outcome of the November election will only be known after January 5, when Georgia voters choose the two senators who will determine which party controls the US Senate – and thus President-elect Joe Biden’s ability to pass laws. […] It’s unclear how many will heed the call, but it’s worth remembering that Georgia just elected to Congress a QAnon devotee, Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. 2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:
    • Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.

Translations (8)

pl przyszły (not yet inaugurated) · fi tuleva (not yet inaugurated) · hu várományos (not yet inaugurated) · sv vald (not yet inaugurated) · vi tân cử (not yet inaugurated) · hu megválasztott (not yet inaugurated) · fi vastavalittu (not yet inaugurated) · shn လောင်း (not yet inaugurated)