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-elect

-elect suffix: used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.

Suffix

-elect

  1. Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.
    • Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.
    • 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...2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022

-elect meaning in Vietnamese

-elect in Vietnamese

not yet inaugurated
tân cử

Origin of -elect

From elect.

Questions about -elect

What does -elect mean?
-elect means used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.
What is -elect in Vietnamese?
-elect in Vietnamese is tân cử. See -elect meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is -elect?
-elect is a suffix.

Words near -elect in the dictionary

  1. -eh
  2. -eil
  3. -ein
  4. -eine
  5. -el
  6. -elect
  7. -elic
  8. -elle
  9. -eme
  10. -emesis
  11. -emia

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