Definition of unelected in English:
unelected
adjectiveʌnɪˈlɛktɪdˌənəˈlɛktəd
(of an official) not elected.
Example sentencesExamples
- They are staffed and managed by a bunch of unelected officials and governors.
- The constitution itself was drawn up by a panel of unelected bureaucrats.
- The debate about who to appoint as the head of the unelected European Commission reinforces this point.
- For the first time in decades, unelected judges were telling elected parliamentarians what they could and couldn't do.
- It's not just the fact that they're unelected that makes it undemocratic, but the way they are put there.
- I do not think we should leave it in the hands of an unelected civil servant to determine what goes in the summary.
- Now this unelected lord is in charge of modernising the British constitution.
- This is an unelected government, installed in office by the Supreme Court despite having lost the popular vote.
- Do you want more unelected bureaucrats taking over more details of your life and your family's life?
- From this time, unelected officials from this bureaucracy have proved on occasions to be in competition with the president.
- It is an unelected body consisting of representatives of the largest US banks and corporations.
- Yet, Commissioners are unelected and the Commission is often portrayed as an unaccountable technocracy.
- New-style council cabinets work in collusion with unelected quangos to increasingly control spending.
- It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability.
- Another unelected committee monitors member states' compliance with the convergence criteria.
- The question then has to be how an unelected sovereign can justifiably exist in a democracy?
- We have a Court of Appeal with unelected judges engaged in activism.
- It is not even able to control the unelected commissioners in Brussels.
- So it's a bit rich coming from the unelected chairman of the Labour Party.
- This bill leaves those decisions to an unelected and unaccountable committee that meets behind closed doors.
Rhymes
aspected, disaffected, disconnected, invected, unaffected, uncollected, unconnected, uncorrected, undetected, undirected, unexpected, uninflected, unprotected, unselected, unsuspected
Definition of unelected in US English:
unelected
adjectiveˌənəˈlektədˌənəˈlɛktəd
(of an official) not elected.
Example sentencesExamples
- Another unelected committee monitors member states' compliance with the convergence criteria.
- Do you want more unelected bureaucrats taking over more details of your life and your family's life?
- New-style council cabinets work in collusion with unelected quangos to increasingly control spending.
- So it's a bit rich coming from the unelected chairman of the Labour Party.
- It's not just the fact that they're unelected that makes it undemocratic, but the way they are put there.
- For the first time in decades, unelected judges were telling elected parliamentarians what they could and couldn't do.
- They are staffed and managed by a bunch of unelected officials and governors.
- The debate about who to appoint as the head of the unelected European Commission reinforces this point.
- Now this unelected lord is in charge of modernising the British constitution.
- It is an unelected body consisting of representatives of the largest US banks and corporations.
- This bill leaves those decisions to an unelected and unaccountable committee that meets behind closed doors.
- We have a Court of Appeal with unelected judges engaged in activism.
- It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability.
- It is not even able to control the unelected commissioners in Brussels.
- This is an unelected government, installed in office by the Supreme Court despite having lost the popular vote.
- Yet, Commissioners are unelected and the Commission is often portrayed as an unaccountable technocracy.
- From this time, unelected officials from this bureaucracy have proved on occasions to be in competition with the president.
- The constitution itself was drawn up by a panel of unelected bureaucrats.
- I do not think we should leave it in the hands of an unelected civil servant to determine what goes in the summary.
- The question then has to be how an unelected sovereign can justifiably exist in a democracy?