คำว่า ' election ' ( N )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[a.] The act of choosing; choice; selection.
[a.] The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
[a.] Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
[a.] Discriminating choice; discernment.
[a.] Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
[a.] The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
[a.] Those who are elected.