nonelected
Americanadjective
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chosen for a position or office without running in an election.
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not specifically chosen.
Example Sentences
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On Wednesday, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Biden was seeking advice from a range of elected and nonelected officials, and approaching the nomination process in “a bipartisan manner”
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022
A bureaucracy is an administrative group of nonelected officials charged with carrying out functions connected to a series of policies and programs.
From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021
The problem: One of the nominees was former Chelminiak, who had opposed the idea of having nonelected leaders on the governing committee.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2020
“It should never be considered ‘time for a general’ to fill the senior-most nonelected civilian position in the operational chain of command,” Hicks said in her opening testimony.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2017
The two were Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, a major architect of Nigeria's independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Ibo leader who was the nonelected President during the brief parliamentary republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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