Synonyms for elect
ɪˈlɛktelect

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1. electnoun

   Antonyms:
   reprobate

2. electnoun

   Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President-elect.

   Antonyms:
   reprobate

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1. elect

   Prefer indicates a state of desire and approval; choose, an act of will. Prudence or generosity may lead one to choose what he does not prefer. Select implies a careful consideration of the reasons for preference and choice. Among objects so nearly alike that we have no reason to prefer any one to another we may simply choose the nearest, but we could not be said to select it. Aside from theology, elect is popularly confined to the political sense; as, a free people elect their own rulers. Cull, from the Latin colligere, commonly means to collect, as well as to select. In a garden we cull the choicest flowers.

   Synonyms:
   choose, cull, pick, pick out, prefer, select

   Antonyms:
   cast away, cast out, decline, disclaim, dismiss, leave, refuse, reject, repudiate, throw aside

   Preposition:
   Choose from or from among the number; choose out of the army; choose between (or betwixt) two; among many; choose for the purpose.

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1. electadjective

   Synonyms:
   elite, choice, accepted, chosen

   Antonyms:
   rejected, reprobate

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1. chosen, electadjective

   an exclusive group of people

   "one of the elect who have power inside the government"

   Synonyms:
   chosen

   Antonyms:
   outgoing, unselected

2. elect, eliteadjective

   selected as the best

   "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"

   Synonyms:
   elect(ip), elite

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

3. elect(ip)verb

   elected but not yet installed in office

   "the president elect"

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

4. electverb

   select by a vote for an office or membership

   "We elected him chairman of the board"

   Antonyms:
   unselected, outgoing

5. electverb

   choose

   "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically"

   Antonyms:
   outgoing, unselected

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1. electverb

   Synonyms:
   CHOOSE, select, cull, pick, pick out, make choice of

2. electadjective

   Synonyms:
   chosen, selected, picked, choice

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1. List of paraphrases for "elect":

   choose, election, elects, select, opt, elected, elections, pick, electoral

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1. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence:

   The choice could n’t be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C., or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again.

2. Bernie Sanders:

   I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough.

3. Paul LePage:

   It's only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida. All the small states like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, Montana, Rhode Island, you'll never see a presidential candidate again. You'll never see anybody at the national stage come to our state.

4. Michael Bloomberg:

   If you keep on going, we will elect Bernie -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.One will lose to Donald Trump. And the White House and the Senate and some of the statehouses will all go red, and then between gerrymandering and appointing judges, for the next 20 or 30 years, we're going to live with this catastrophe.

5. Bill Clinton:

   When you elect a president you have got to say, 'Who is the person I think is most likely to keep big, bad things from happening and to make more good things happen?' i don't think it is a terribly close question.