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self-selections

self-selections is the plural of self-selection.

Meaning of self-selection

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.

Questions about self-selections

What is self-selections the plural of?
Self-selections is the plural of self-selection.

Words near self-selections in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-selections (page history and authors); 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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