ELECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elected mean? 

• ELECTED (adjective)
  The adjective ELECTED has 1 sense:

1. subject to popular election

  Familiarity information: ELECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to popular election

Synonyms:

elected; elective

Context example:

elective official

Similar:

electoral (relating to or composed of electors)

nonappointive (filled by popular election rather than by appointment)

 Context examples 

She had elected to deal with Dennin in her way, and so he left the whole matter in her hands.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Because of this new feeling within him, he ofttimes elected discomfort and pain for the sake of his god.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

For a year, researchers followed the eligible patients, all of whom had low cardiovascular risk, and compared them to those who elected not to receive biologic therapy.

(Study links psoriasis treatment and improvement in heart artery disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For his task he elected a vengeance on the shark.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A person appointed or elected to represent others.

(Delegate, NCI Thesaurus)

After the Easter recess, Sir George Lynn, who was lately elected member for Millcote, will have to go up to town and take his seat; I daresay Mr. Rochester will accompany him: it surprises me that he has already made so protracted a stay at Thornfield.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then I move, said Professor Challenger, that both these gentlemen be elected, as representatives of this meeting, to accompany Professor Summerlee upon his journey to investigate and to report upon the truth of my statements.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, Uranus may be visiting your financial solar second house, but Uranus rules your solar eleventh house of friendship, charities, and other clubs, including political ones. (In the latter case, if you volunteer to help a candidate become elected, this is covered by the eleventh house, too.)

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But at last, after a futile year of flight, he accepted the inevitable and elected to remain at the cottage where first he had killed the rabbit and slept by the spring.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)