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adlect

adlect verb: to choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Verb

adlect (third-person singular simple present adlects, present participle adlecting, simple past and past participle adlected)

  1. To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Forms of adlect

third-person singular presentadlects
present participleadlecting
past participleadlected
pastadlected

Origin of adlect

From adlēct-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adlegō, an alternative spelling of allegō (“to select, choose, recruit, or elect; to admit (to or into something)”).

Questions about adlect

What does adlect mean?
Adlect means to choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.
What part of speech is adlect?
Adlect is a verb.
What is the past tense of adlect?
The past tense of adlect is adlected.

Words near adlect in the dictionary

  1. Adlawan
  2. adlay
  3. adlayer
  4. adlayers
  5. adlays
  6. adlect
  7. adlected
  8. adlecting
  9. adlection
  10. adlections
  11. adlects

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