general election
general election noun: an election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
Noun
general election (plural general elections)
- An election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
- In the United States, general elections occur every two years, with the quadrennial presidential elections distinguished from the midterm elections between them.
- With a General Election under two years away (and if, by then, the Plan for Rail had already begun to be implemented), would it be efficient or worth implementing Labour's full nationalisation should it form a government?2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 31
- Synonym of erection.
- Synonyms:
- erection
general election meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
general election in Hindi
- general election
- आम चुनाव ām cunāv
general election in Tamil
- பொதுத் தேர்தல்
general election in Urdu
- election held in all or most constituencies within a region or nation
- عام انتخابات āmm intixābāt
general election in Kannada
- election held in all or most constituencies within a region or nation
- ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆ sārvatrika cunāvaṇe
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- general election in Sinhala
- මහා මැතිවරණ mahā mætiwaraṇa
- general election in Arabic
- انتخابات عامة intiḵābāt ʕāmma
- general election in Malay
- pilihan raya umum
- general election in Indonesian
- pemilihan umum
- general election in Persian
- انتخابات سراسری entexâbât sarâsari
- general election in Thai
- การเลือกตั้งทั่วไป gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng-tûua-bpai
- general election in Vietnamese
- tổng tuyển cử
Synonyms of general election
Forms of general election
| plural | general elections |
|---|---|
| alternative form | general |
| alternative form | generals |
| alternative form | general elections |
Questions about general election
- What does general election mean?
- General election means an election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation.
- What is general election in Hindi?
- General election in Hindi is आम चुनाव (ām cunāv). See General election meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is general election?
- General election is a noun.
- What is the plural of general election?
- The plural of general election is general elections.
Words near general election in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: general election (page history and authors); आम चुनाव (Hindi) (page history and authors); general election (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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