{
    "term": "elect",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "elect",
            "heSheIt": "elects"
        },
        "pastSimple": "elected",
        "pastParticiple": "elected",
        "ingForm": "electing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to choose somebody to do a particular job by voting for them",
            "sensetop": "elect somebody/somethingelect somebody to somethingelect somebody (as) something",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Voters will elect a new president on 30 March next year.",
                    "contextForm": "elect somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **newly/democratically elected** government"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **elected representative/official/assembly**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What changes will he make if he **gets elected**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate.",
                    "contextForm": "elect somebody to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was elected (as) MP for Oxford East.",
                    "contextForm": "elect somebody (as) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party first elected her leader in 2017."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Five were successful, three being elected unopposed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was elected to Parliament in 1997."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was decided that the president should be elected directly in free elections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Members of the council are elected annually."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has been elected to Parliament."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They make their own rules and elect their own leaders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each officer shall be elected for one term of two years."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["annually", "locally", "nationally"],
                "preposition": ["to"],
                "phrases": ["be elected", "get elected", "be declared elected"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to choose to do something",
            "sensetop": "elect to do something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Increasing numbers of people elect to work from home nowadays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several of the tenants have elected to move to smaller premises."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekt/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elect__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekts/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elects__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪd/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elected__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪŋ/",
                "audio": "el/elect/electing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekt/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elect__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekts/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elects__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪd/",
                "audio": "el/elect/elected__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlektɪŋ/",
                "audio": "el/elect/electing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’."
}