English words for 'After an election.'
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noun
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
verb
conj
adj
adj
- subject to popular election
- optional
- (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
noun
verb
- win in an election
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- propel
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- have a certain range
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the status or fact of being elected
- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- An option that is selected.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
verb
- elect again
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
noun
- The act of winning an election to a post because there were no other candidates.
- A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
- (art) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
- (politics) An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
- enthusiastic approval
noun
- (politics) A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
- (politics) A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
- (crosswording, derogatory) A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
- A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
- a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters
- a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot
name
noun
noun
- (US, politics) An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
- (colloquial) A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
- (computing) A server that continues to serve ongoing requests while refusing new ones, allowing for graceful shutdown.
- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
verb
noun
name
- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
verb
noun
prefix
noun
- An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
- (Christianity) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
- A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
- Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
- Intense study of someone or something.
- the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
- a prolonged intense look
verb
- (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- state firmly
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- authorize payments of
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
- announce publicly or officially
- declare to be
- state emphatically and authoritatively
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
noun
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the status or fact of being elected
- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
- A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
- (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
- An option that is selected.
- The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
noun
- The act of winning an election to a post because there were no other candidates.
- A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
- (art) A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
- (politics) An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
- enthusiastic approval
noun
- (politics) A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
- (politics) A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
- (crosswording, derogatory) A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
- A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
- a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters
- a vote cast by writing in the name of a candidate who is not listed on the ballot
noun
- (US, politics) An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
- (colloquial) A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
- (computing) A server that continues to serve ongoing requests while refusing new ones, allowing for graceful shutdown.
- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
verb
noun
name
- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun
- An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
- (Christianity) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
- A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
- Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
- Intense study of someone or something.
- the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)
- a prolonged intense look
verb
conj
verb
- win in an election
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- propel
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- have a certain range
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
verb
- elect again
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
noun
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result
- (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
- (grand strategy games, slang) to declare war [with on]
- (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
- (cricket) The decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.
- (Christianity, particularly Evangelicalism) To state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.
- (transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
- (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.
- state firmly
- designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand
- authorize payments of
- proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
- announce publicly or officially
- declare to be
- state emphatically and authoritatively
- make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official
adj
adj
- subject to popular election
- optional
- (US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.