-elect

See also: elect

English

Etymology

From elect

Suffix

-elect

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

president-elect

Translations

not yet inaugurated

Finnish: vastavalittu, tuleva (fi)
Swedish: vald (sv)

Vietnamese: tân cử (vi)

Further reading

-elect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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