election | the act of selecting someone or something, the exercise of deliberate choice, her election of medicine as a profession |
election | a vote to select the winner of a position or political office, the results of the election will be announced tonight |
general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
primary primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
by-election bye-election | a special election between regular elections |
election fraud | misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election |
right of election | in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute |
voting system electoral system | a legal system for making democratic choices |
election | the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) |
writ of election | a writ ordering the holding of an election |
electoral college | the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president |
board meeting committee meeting | a meeting for administrative purposes |
blue ribbon commission blue ribbon committee | an independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue |
committee commission | a special group delegated to consider some matter, a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours - Milton Berle |
election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |
committee citizens committee | a selfonstituted organization to promote something |
select committee | a parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose |
vigilance committee | a volunteer committee to maintain order where an efficient legal system does not exist |
welcoming committee | a committee to welcome new residents to a community |
standing committee | a permanent committee |
Ways and Means Committee | a permanent committee of the United States House of Representatives that makes recommendations to the US House on all bills that would raise revenue |
steering committee | a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body |
ethics committee ethics panel | a committee appointed to consider ethical issues |
finance committee | a committee appointed to consider financial issues |
political action committee PAC | committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates |
Security Intelligence Review Committee SIRC | an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
voting precinct election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
committee member | a member of a committee |
election | the status or fact of being elected, they celebrated his election |
polling day election day | the day appointed for an election, in the United States it is the st Tuesday after the st Monday in November |
electoral | relating to or composed of electors, electoral college |
electoral | of or relating to elections, electoral process |