{
    "term": "election",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process of choosing a person or a group of people for a position, especially a political position, by voting",
            "labels": "(especially British English)(especially North American English)(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": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**presidential/parliamentary/local elections**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the upcoming **midterm elections** for Congress"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prime minister is about to **call** *(= announce)* **an election**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Elections will be held** later this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **vote in an election**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "How many candidates are **standing for election**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **run for election**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **fight/contest an election**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **win/lose an election**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the 2020 US **election campaign**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **election result/victory**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "election day/night"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All counties have now certified their election returns."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Education is a key election issue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Elections are scheduled for November."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was successful in rallying voters at election time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Membership of the committee is by election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Predicting the result of close elections is a perilous game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Governor faces an unprecedented recall election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The US is reaching the end of its latest presidential election cycle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The election turnout in 2018 was high."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party swept Turkish elections in November."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party won a landslide election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ohio has repeatedly seen elections decided by handfuls of votes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prime minister may decide to call an early election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The violence in the country will not derail the elections."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They demanded a rerun of the disputed presidential election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bitterly disputed election"
                },
                {
                    "text": "claims that voter fraud had stolen the election for the Republicans"
                },
                {
                    "text": "opinion poll results in the run-up to elections"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the democratic concept of popular elections"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the scheduled Lebanese elections in May"
                },
                {
                    "text": "votes which could swing the entire national election"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He first stood for election when he was 21."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It will be a hard-fought election campaign."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's yet to say whether she will be running for election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country's first free elections took place in 1990."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The first election results will be coming in very soon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party promised this in their election manifesto."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the upcoming/​forthcoming election"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an election candidate/​official"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The black vote will help determine the outcome of this election."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clean", "fair", "free"],
                "verb + election": ["conduct", "have", "hold"],
                "election + verb": ["take place", "be due", "be scheduled for"],
                "election + noun": ["campaign", "manifesto", "pledge"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at a/​the election",
                    "in a/​the election",
                    "by election"
                ],
                "phrases": ["the outcome of an election", "the run-up to an election"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of having been chosen by election",
            "sensetop": "election as somethingelection to something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her election will mark a new beginning for the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We welcome his election as president.",
                    "contextForm": "election as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a year after her election to the committee",
                    "contextForm": "election to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Since his election to the Senate, he has been an ardent gay rights supporter."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clean", "fair", "free"],
                "verb + election": ["conduct", "have", "hold"],
                "election + verb": ["take place", "be due", "be scheduled for"],
                "election + noun": ["campaign", "manifesto", "pledge"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at a/​the election",
                    "in a/​the election",
                    "by election"
                ],
                "phrases": ["the outcome of an election", "the run-up to an election"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekʃn/",
                "audio": "el/election/election__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈlekʃn/",
                "audio": "el/election/election__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin electio(n-), from eligere ‘pick out’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’."
}