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re-elect

re-elect is the alternative spelling of reelect.

Meaning of reelect

Verb

reelect (third-person singular simple present reelects, present participle reelecting, simple past and past participle reelected)

  1. To elect for a second or subsequent time.
    • Voters in Omaha were set to make history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor.2025 May 14, “Omaha poised to have first Black leader after mayor concedes race”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press

Forms of re-elect

third-person singular presentre-elects
present participlere-electing
past participlere-elected
pastre-elected

Questions about re-elect

What is re-elect the alternative spelling of?
Re-elect is the alternative spelling of reelect.

Words near re-elect in the dictionary

  1. re-educates
  2. re-educating
  3. re-education
  4. re-education camp
  5. re-education camps
  6. re-elect
  7. re-electability
  8. re-electable
  9. re-elected
  10. re-electing
  11. re-election

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