Elect

Definition

elect /Ç'lekt/ v ၁။ ~ sb (to sth); ~ sb (as sth) မဲေပးေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမႇာက္သည္။ an elected assembly/representative/leader ❍ They elected a new president. ❍ He failed to get elected. ❍ She was elected to parliament last year. ❍ We elected James (to be) chairman. ❍ He was elected as MP for Oxford East. ၂။ ( fml ) ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ ဆံုးျဖတ္သည္။ She elected to work overtime on Mondays. adj (နာမ္ပုဒ္ေနာက္ဆက္အျဖစ္ သံုးသည္။ ) ေရြးေကာက္ တင္ေျမႇာက္ျခင္း ခံထားရေသာ္လည္း တာဝန္မယူရေသးေသာ။ the president elect. ❏ the elect n [pl v ] ( fml ) လက္ေရြးစင္။

Examples

1. Every nation should have a right to elect its own government.
2. The council is elected by popular vote.
3. [elect someone to something] : He was elected to parliament by a large majority.
4. [elect someone as something] : Lee Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice President.
5. [elect someone president/chairman/leader etc] : Smith was elected executive chairman of a new steering committee.
6. [elect someone to do something] : We were elected to tackle poverty
7. and that’s what we will do.