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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deselect
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Shire difficulty became sheer impossibility after a months long battle to deselect David Abrahams, the previous candidate.
▪ They can also threaten to get rid of you or deselect you.
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deselect

vb. 1 To not select; to rule out of selection. 2 (context British politics English) To reject (an MP) as constituency candidate at a forthcoming election.

Usage examples of "deselect".

Data had already thoughtfully prepared an index with descriptions of some of the files in the material, and Picard scanned down it on his screen, having already told the computer to deselect any material of strictly astrophysical interest.

At one time perhaps they served a purpose that later was deselected by evolution, or perhaps they were accidents that never should have occurred.

The captain deselected Marilyn Monroe and switched over to the "take" from Grace Kelly.

So, eighteen to thirty should be a good straddle, he thought, and he further deselected the names that didn't fit that model.

He deselected the flares on station two and selected stations one and five, where the cluster bombs hung.