Crossword-Solution: ELECT 5 letters, 302 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Elect	a.	Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Elect	a.	Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
Elect	a.	Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
Elect	n.	One chosen or set apart.
Elect	n.	Those who are chosen for salvation.
Elect	v. t.	To pick out; to select; to choose.
Elect	v. t.	To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
Elect	v. t.	To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ELECT	anagram	CELTE, CLETE

We have 302 clues for the answer “ELECT”

Clue	Answers
"To-be-soon" ender	1 answer
2020 word	1 answer
About to be in office	1 answer
Appoint democratically	1 answer
Approve for office installation	1 answer
Awaiting induction	1 answer
Award a plurality, perhaps	1 answer
Be a majority voter	1 answer
Bring to office	1 answer
Bumper sticker word, perhaps	1 answer
Campaign ad verb	1 answer
Campaign ad word	1 answer
Campaign button word	1 answer
Campaign poster imperative	1 answer
Campaign poster plea	1 answer
Campaign poster verb	1 answer
Campaign sign directive	1 answer
Campaign sign verb	1 answer
Campaign sign word	1 answer
Campaign-button verb	1 answer
Campaign-poster word	1 answer
Campaigner's verb	1 answer
Choice ones	1 answer
Choose a president	1 answer
Choose by a vote	1 answer
Choose by majority vote	1 answer
Choose by popular vote	1 answer
Choose by voting	1 answer
Choose democratically	1 answer
Choose for an office	1 answer
Choose from a slate	1 answer
Choose officers.	1 answer
Choose politically	1 answer
Choose representatives	1 answer
Choose to hold office	1 answer
Choose to lead	1 answer
Choose to serve	1 answer
Choose via vote	1 answer
Choose, as a PM	1 answer
Choose, as a candidate	1 answer
Choose, as a comptroller	1 answer
Choose, as a governor	1 answer
Choose, as a nonrequired course	1 answer
Choose, as a senator	1 answer
Choose, in those countries that have democracies	1 answer
Chose by vote.	1 answer
Chosen but not yet installed	1 answer
Chosen ones, with "The"	1 answer
Collectively vote for	1 answer
Deem the lesser of two evils, say	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ELECT (5)

The person or entity that provided you with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a refund.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill’d All Heav’n, and in the blessed Spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus’d: Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious, in him all his Father shon Substantially express’d, and in his face Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Love without end, and without measure Grace, Which uttering thus he to his Father spake.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

One might also elect to have the campus wide area network liaison screen the messages in either case and only forward those which are considered of merit.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992

Because parliamentarians failed to elect a presidential successor, Gemayel appointed then Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Gen.

The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Beginning with a forewordby Vice-President Elect Al Gore, this book provides an often-humorous explanation of the origins of the Internet, acceptable use, basics of electronic mail, netiquette, online resources, transferring information, and finding email addresses.

Surfing the Internet Jean Armour Polly 1993

Quotes with ELECT (3)

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

Cormac McCarthy

We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche…

Rollo May The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 783 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).