self-elect

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To self-select

   To self-select; to choose for oneself, rather than having another choose for one.

   • GATT Contracting Parties have self-elected their designation, most recently when the WTO was created.
   • Rather than a kind of lawlessness, these chatrooms occasion the opportunity for each community to write and enforce its own rules about online conduct and self-elect its enforcers.
2. 2

   To self-appoint

   To self-appoint; to volunteer; to take on a role one has chosen for oneself.

   • Which of ye will venture upon me? —Will you, Mr. Constable self-elect? or you, sir, with a pimple on your nose, got at Oxford by hard drinking, your only badge of loyalty?
   • Over the past five years they have created a model of a school community council where students can 'self-elect' to be a part of a supportive framework of student-led teams.
   • Students and families reacted with their feet and decided to apply to other institutions of higher education or self-elect themselves out of 4-year institutions altogether due to the preceived climate in higher education.
3. 3

   Chosen by oneself

   Chosen by oneself; self-appointed.

   • The House of Keys, being self-elect, in these days of popular election by the people, is not a very popular institution.
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   1. 4

      The self-appointed elite.

      • Meantime the minister ascended the pulpit-stair, with all the solemnity of one of the self-elect, and a priest besides.
      • Moreover, the self-elect seem as illiterate as they are tyrannical, and can hardly spell their own names.
   2. 5

      A volunteer.

      • Most of the volunteers had departed for the winter, leaving behind three hundred self-elects.

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