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单词 re-elect
释义

re-electv.

Brit. /ˌriːᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /ˈˌriəˈlɛk(t)/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, elect v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + elect v. Compare post-classical Latin reeligere (c1250, c1470 in British sources).
transitive. To elect (a person) for a second or subsequent time, esp. to the same office. Frequently in passive.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)] > again
re-elect1600
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. 199 Thus after fifteene yeares were Consuls reelected [L. creati], L. Lucretius Flavus, Servius Sulpitius Camerinus.
1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 224 Yet seeing a Widdower is the second part of a Bachelor, and Cranmers extraordinary learning a dispensation for himselfe, by peculiar favour he was reelected into that House.
1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 127 One Mr. Broom being some time since chosen, but not qualified,..he was this day..reelected.
1713 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1712 153 Sir Robert Sawyer was likewise expell'd, and re-elected immediately after the Sentence of Expulsion was pass'd, in the Vacancy occasion'd by his own Expulsion.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xx. 150 [He] was expelled, re-elected, and admitted to take his seat in the same parliament.
1795 Ann. Reg. App. Chron. 92 They are all elected for two years, and may be immediately and indefinitively re-elected.
1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxv. 361 Philopœmen was re-elected for the following year.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 128 A member expelled may, upon the issue of a new writ, be re-elected by his former constituents.
1890 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 23 Apr. 2/3 Among the Sachems unanimously re-elected by Tammany Hall are [etc.].
1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 441/2 A gunny sack around his foot and a crutch, and he might have been reelected.
1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Mar. 116/3 The first law for officeholders is majestically short, simple and unassailable: ‘Get re-elected’.
1995 Time 6 Nov. 27/2 Will red-meat conservatives who love Pat continue to support him right through the convention, even at the risk of helping re-elect a President they revile..?

Derivatives

re-eˈlected adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > elected > again
re-elected1838
1838 J. L. Adolphus in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott VII. vi 221 He spoke very beautifully and warmly of the re-elected candidate who sat by him.
1954 Music Educators Jrnl. 40 30 The re-elected members of the Executive Council are [etc.].
1996 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 23/1 There is something ominously doughy about America's attitude towards Beijing as articulated by its re-elected President.
re-eˈlecting n.
ΚΠ
1770 London Museum Apr. 221 Great inconvenience would arise from frequent re-electing and re-expelling.
1823 G. Baker tr. Livy Hist. Rome III. xxvii. 413 The re-electing of the same person..was not..reconcileable to the principles of a republic.
2005 Mirror (Nexis) 3 Mar. 9 Not a peep about..the dubious re-electing of the Gibbon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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