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nonelection

nonelection adjective: not having or relating to an election.

Adjective

nonelection (not comparable)

  1. Not having or relating to an election
    • In nonelection years — the “off season” for political consultants — Democratic and Republican strategists have worked together on corporate accounts before, but the amount of teaming up now is striking, even to some of Washington’s oldest hands.2009 January 16, Adam Nagourney, Jim Rutenberg, “Spirit of Bipartisanship Spreads to Consultants”, in New York Times

Noun

nonelection (plural nonelections)

  1. A decision-making process that is not an election.
    • Nonelections
      If the shareholders' proxies are sought not for election of a board of directors, but for some extraordinary corporate event, such as a merger, no annual report is required […]1987, Robert A. Prentice, Law of Business Organizations and Securities Regulation, page 656

Forms of nonelection

pluralnonelections

Origin of nonelection

From non- + election.

Questions about nonelection

What does nonelection mean?
Nonelection means not having or relating to an election.
What part of speech is nonelection?
Nonelection can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonelection in the dictionary

  1. nonelastomeric
  2. nonelderly
  3. nonelect
  4. nonelected
  5. nonelecting
  6. nonelection
  7. nonelections
  8. nonelective
  9. nonelectively
  10. nonelectives
  11. nonelector

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