elector
A person eligible to vote in an electionA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
» As required by federal law, I've signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Meaning
3 sensesA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
(Commonwealth, UK)A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
Elektor, Elektorin, Wahlmann
вы́борщикvýborščik, вы́борщицаvýborščica
ви́борникvýbornyk, ви́борницяvýbornycja
- any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- a citizen who has a legal right to vote
Examples
1 sentencesAs required by federal law, I've signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”)From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).
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Forms
plural: electorsSynonyms
1 synonyms- a citizen who has a legal right to vote:voter