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-elect
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elect
English
Etymology
From en elect.
Suffix
Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.
en Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.
en Frida Ghitis Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/opinions/georgia-trump-set-gop-failure-ghitis 2020-12-29 The full outcome of the November election will only be known after January 5, when Georgia voters choose the two senators who will determine which party controls the US Senate – and thus President-elect Joe Biden’s ability to pass laws. It’s unclear how many will heed the call, but it’s worth remembering that Georgia just elected to Congress a QAnon devotee, Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://web.archive.org/web/20221003082245/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/29/opinions/georgia-trump-set-gop-failure-ghitis
Derived terms
en
Translations
not yet inaugurated
Finnish: fi vastavalittu, fi tuleva
Hungarian: hu megválasztott, hu várományos
Polish: pl przyszły
Shan: shn လောင်း
Swedish: sv vald
Vietnamese: vi tân cử