Found 4 items, similar to election.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: election pemilihan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: election pemilihan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: election election n 1: a vote to select the winner of a position or political office; “the results of the election will be announced tonight” 2: the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; “her election of medicine as a profession” 3: the status or fact of being elected; “they celebrated his election” 4: the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
English → English (gcide) Definition: Election Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr. eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.] 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. [1913 Webster] Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. --J. Adams. [1913 Webster] 3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. “By his own election led to ill.” --Daniel. [1913 Webster] 4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] To use men with much difference and election is good. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the “five points” of Calvinism. [1913 Webster] There is a remnant according to the election of grace. --Rom. xi. 5. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. [1913 Webster] 7. Those who are elected. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The election hath obtained it. --Rom. xi. 7. [1913 Webster] To contest an election. See under Contest. To make one's election, to choose. [1913 Webster] He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. --Fitzed. Hall. [1913 Webster]