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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unelected
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the British Parliament's unelected House of Lords
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A randomly selected redistricting committee would leave the real power, again, with unelected staff.
▪ A small point in a big-city operation, but one more shift of responsibility from elected officials to the unelected bureaucracy.
▪ All the added power to be granted county government by this charter proposal will accrue to an unelected staff.
▪ Elected Governments find that they have to share their power with unelected bodies ... Events are seemingly beyond their control.
▪ However, unelected, time limited, hierarchical agencies have played an important role in central government initiatives to solve social problems.
▪ In effect, Congress repeatedly gave away a sizable chunk of power to the unelected civil servants who staff federal agencies.
▪ In other words, an unelected body decides what it will consider.
▪ We break that trust by handing over power to unelected people without any mechanism for changing their decisions.
Wiktionary
unelected

a. Not elected

Usage examples of "unelected".

Going around housing estates kissing Pakistani women, then being unelected if you'd unpleased your ungrateful constituents.

They knew: when the unelected seize the presidential palaces, democrats must seize the streets.

To prevent an unelected US president from ordering up counteratrocities, grieving Americans don’t need nasty admonitions about the causes, just or unjust, of our killers.

They want an end to national sovereignty and they want global governance by an unelected, self-chosen "elite.

They really intend that unelected bureaucrats and judges, and self-selected elites ought be able to tell you what to do, how to live, what to pay in taxes, what rights you are not entitled to.

It's really quite another for unelected judges to be imposing $2 billion property taxes and ordering school districts to build opulent school campuses replete with Olympic-sized pools, 25-acre wildlife sanctuaries, and a model United Nations with simultaneous translation facilities.

The international powers that be, our unelected global government, decided they needed slave labor for the factories, farms, hotels, and the houses of ill repute in the United States.

These unelected, unaccountable radicals have twisted our laws to advance their own extremist agenda.

Instead, they appeal to unelected judges to thwart the will of the people and to inflict their radical agenda on Nebraskans.

Then, 'Still, on the subject of unelected reactionaries, what d'you think the Politbureau is?

Control of the economy will go back to an unelected cabal of the rich.