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ELECTED OFFICIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elected official mean?
• ELECTED OFFICIAL (noun)
The noun ELECTED OFFICIAL has 1 sense:
1. official who won the office in a free election
Familiarity information: ELECTED OFFICIAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Official who won the office in a free election
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("elected official" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elected official"):
lame duck (an elected official still in office but not slated to continue)
lieutenant governor (an elected official serving as deputy to the governor of a state of the United States)
selectman; selectwoman (an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns)
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