Elector

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elector \E*lect"or\, n. [L., fr. eligere: cf. F. ['e]lecteur.]
     1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
        is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his
        vote in favor of a candidate for office.
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     2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally
        qualified to vote.
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     3. In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to
        choose the emperor.
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     4. One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the
        United States, to elect the President and Vice President.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elector \E*lect"or\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectoral.]
     Pertaining to an election or to electors.
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           In favor of the electoral and other princes. --Burke.
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     {Electoral college}, the body of princes formerly entitled to
        elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes
        given, in the United States, to the body of electors
        chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice
        President.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elector
       n 1: a citizen who has a legal right to vote [syn: {voter}]
       2: any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the
          election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ELECTOR, government. One who has the right to make choice of public officers 
  one, who has a right to vote. 
       2. The qualifications of electors are generally the same as those 
  required in the person to be elected; to this, however, there is one 
  exception; a naturalized citizen may be an elector of president of the 
  United States, although he could not constitutionally be elected to that 
  office. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ELECTOR, n.  One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man
  of another man's choice.