-elect

See also: elect

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-elect

Wikipedia

Etymology

From elect.

Suffix

-elect

1. Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.

   Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -elect

champion-elect

president-elect

Vice-President-elect

Translations

not yet inaugurated

Finnish: vastavalittu, tuleva (fi) Hungarian: megválasztott (hu), várományos (hu) Polish: przyszły (pl) Shan: လောင်း Swedish: vald (sv) Vietnamese: tân cử (vi)