unelected

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ elected.

Adjective

unelected (comparative more unelected, superlative most unelected)

  1. Not elected.
    • 2023 December 20, Marshall Cohen, “Fact check: Are Colorado Supreme Court justices ‘unelected,’ as GOP has claimed?”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “We need elections that we can trust, that we can believe in,” GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday at a campaign event in Mason City, Iowa. “That means yes, unelected judges are not going to decide willy-nilly across the state who ends up on a ballot and who doesn’t.”
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

unelected

  1. simple past and past participle of unelect
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