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self-selection

self-selection noun: selecting oneself for something.

Noun

self-selection (usually uncountable, plural self-selections)

  1. (usually) Selecting oneself for something.
  2. (usually) Selecting something for oneself.
    • “I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,” Mr. Zuckerberg said.2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  3. (countable, usually) An item selected by oneself.
  4. (usually) A form of nonprobability sampling bias in which individuals select themselves into a group.

Forms of self-selection

pluralself-selections

Origin of self-selection

From self- + selection.

Questions about self-selection

What does self-selection mean?
Self-selection means selecting oneself for something.
What part of speech is self-selection?
Self-selection is a noun.
What is the plural of self-selection?
The plural of self-selection is self-selections.

Words near self-selection in the dictionary

  1. self-segregates
  2. self-segregating
  3. self-select
  4. self-selected
  5. self-selecting
  6. self-selection
  7. self-selections
  8. self-selects
  9. self-serious
  10. self-seriousness
  11. self-serve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-selection (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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