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e·lec·tor

(ĭ-lĕk′tər)

1. A qualified voter in an election.

2. A member of the Electoral College of the United States.

3. One of the German princes of the Holy Roman Empire entitled to elect the emperor.

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elector

(ɪˈlɛktə)

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) someone who is eligible to vote in the election of a government

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (often capital) a member of the US electoral college

3. (Historical Terms) (often capital) (in the Holy Roman Empire) any of the German princes entitled to take part in the election of a new emperor

eˈlectorˌship n

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e•lec•tor

(ɪˈlɛk tər)

n.

1. a person who elects or may elect, esp. a qualified voter.

2. a member of the electoral college.

3. (usu. cap.) one of the German princes entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

[1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin]

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Noun	1.	elector - a citizen who has a legal right to vote voter electorate - the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote constituent - a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected" citizen - a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community crossover voter, crossover - a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party floater - a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election floating voter, swing voter - a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other
	2.	Elector - any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire prince - a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

elector

noun voter, chooser, selector, constituent, member of the electorate, member of a constituency, enfranchised person Each elector is required to list his order of preferences.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

elector

noun

One who votes:

balloter, voter.

Translations

ناخِب، مُنْتَخِب

vælger

Wähler

elector

électeur

választó

kjósandi

elector

[ɪˈlektəʳ] N → elector(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

elector

[ɪˈlɛktə^r] n → électeur/trice m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

elector

→ Wähler(in) m(f)

(Hist) Elector → Kurfürst m

(US) → Wahlmann m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

elector

[ɪˈlɛktəʳ] n → elettore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

elect

(iˈlekt) verb

1. to choose by vote. He was elected chairman; elected to the committee.

2. to choose (to do something). They elected to go by taxi.

adjective

(placed immediately after noun) chosen for office but not yet in it. the president elect.

eˈlection (-ʃən) noun

the choosing, or choice, (usually by vote) of person(s) for office. When do the elections take place?; He is standing for election again.

eˌlectioˈneer (-ʃə-) verb

to work to bring about the election of a candidate.

eˈlector noun

a person who has the right to vote at an election. Not all the electors bothered to vote.

eˈlectoral adjective

of elections or electors. The names of all electors are listed in the electoral roll.

eˈlectorate (-rət) noun

all electors taken together. Half of the electorate did not vote.

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The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.

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The GAZETTE warned the electors of Eatanswill that the eyes not only of England, but of the whole civilised world, were upon them; and the INDEPENDENT imperatively demanded to know, whether the constituency of Eatanswill were the grand fellows they had always taken them for, or base and servile tools, undeserving alike of the name of Englishmen and the blessings of freedom.

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"Everything goes by fours in that shop," cried a third; "the four nations, the four faculties, the four feasts, the four procurators, the four electors, the four booksellers."

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In certain cases, the electors form a council to him.

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Or why the audience (provided they travel, like electors, without any expense) may not be wafted fifty miles as well as five?

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Naseby on the subject, but if he had been appealed to by the whole body of electors, his letter would be none the less ungenerous and unjust to Mr.

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It would have been highly inconvenient to him to part with Ladislaw at that time, when a dissolution might happen any day, and electors were to be convinced of the course by which the interests of the country would be best served.

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He was annoyed at his son's being there, at the bedside, when he ought to have been addressing the electors. "It's inconvenient, Julius," he said, petulantly.

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The 'independent electors' of the valley were not to be brow-beaten by chiefs, priests, idol or devils.

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"Because, in the first place, if the principle of election is to be the basis of a system, absolute equality among the electors is a first requirement; they ought to be 'equal quantities,' things which modern politics will never bring about.

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Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; only he himself was dumb.

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These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords.