president-elect
[prez-i-duh nt-i-lekt]
- a president after election but before induction into office.
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Origin of president-elect
An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
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Examples from the Web for president-elect
Contemporary Examples
President-elect Poroshenko has vowed to crush the insurgency in a matter of hours, not months.
I was asked by then President-elect Obama to deliver the invocation at the opening inaugural event.
Here is a video from then President-elect Barack Obama in December 2008.
This Week in Pop Culture History: Days of Our Lives, Arrested Development, and 24 PremiereChancellor Agard
November 3, 2013
Well, of course Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't think Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rowhani, is a "moderate."
Supreme Leader Khamenei and president-elect Rowhani understand what they have to do to obtain relief from sanctions.
Historical Examples
He tells me it was like a President-elect on the way to be inaugurated.
The Plum TreeDavid Graham Phillips
The week before the inauguration was a busy one for the President-elect.
Abraham LincolnWilliam Eleroy Curtis
The President-elect then raised the flag to the top of the staff.
Life of Abraham LincolnFrank Crosby
They have abandoned the doctrine of the President-elect upon that point.
The Great Conspiracy, Part 2.John Alexander Logan
A more widely read man would have dismissed the "fetch" like the President-elect, but with a laugh.
The Lincoln Story BookHenry L. Williams
president-elect
- a person who has been elected president but has not yet entered office
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