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Reelect

Reelect \Re`["e]*lect"\ (r?`?*l?kt"), v. t. To elect again; as, to re["e]lect the former governor.

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reelect

vb. To elect for a second or subsequent time.

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reelect

v. elect again [syn: return]

Usage examples of "reelect".

Benjamin Rush, who, like many, assumed that Adams would soon be reelected to Congress.

Also, were it not for the fact that in the South three-fifths of the slaves were counted in apportioning the electoral votes, Adams would have been reelected.

I had no trust in either of them, and less trust for Kennedy than for Barnett, because the law barred Barnett from reelection, but I knew John Kennedy wanted to be reelected.

October it looked as if the senator would be reelected, just as it seemed certain that General Eisenhower would win the state and probably the nation.

Democratic party, then in control of both houses despite the fact that the Republican Eisenhower had been reelected President by a huge majority.

Matthew Lyon, after being sentenced to four months in a foul Vermont jail, had become a national hero and was overwhelmingly reelected to Congress.

In­asmuch as the bulk of his support came from port cities and coastal towns, unless he could vote the graveyard, he just might not be reelected.

Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Worse, Wilson made peace a political issue by appealing to voters to reelect a Democratic Congress in 1918.

Even parliament won't be an innovation -- there's a half-forgotten Council of Notables, elected on the nod, which can be pressed into service simply by reelecting its delegates.

He lived in a big house, belonged to the country club in Huntsville and to Hillsboro's pitiful little excuse for one, he moved in a very exclu­sive circle, but as long as he still acted like a good old boy, they kept reelecting him.

The backing and filling for the upcoming Presidential campaign speeded up with a joint announcement by the national committees of the two conservative parties, the SDS and the PLA, that they would hold their conventions together (while preserving mutual autonomy) for the (unannounced but understood) purpose of reelecting the incumbent.

They kept reelecting him because he was grandfatherly and worked hard to help individuals and families who were having trouble.

He also said that he had made a mistake in signing the deficit-reduction bill with its gas-tax hike and that, if reelected, he’.

Posters on the telephone poles outside the Gray House shouted, REELECT WARREN &amp.