Synonyms of electing

electing

verb

present participle of elect

as in selecting

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities

I've elected to study French as my foreign language

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selecting
• choosing
• picking
• taking
• naming
• preferring
• designating
• culling
• nominating
• handpicking
• tagging
• appointing
• singling (out)
• opting (for)
• cherry-picking
• adopting
• accepting
• tapping
• preselecting
• embracing
• marking
• espousing
• setting
• fixing
• tabbing
• settling (on or upon)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refusing
• rejecting
• declining
• turning down
• repudiating
• disapproving
• discarding
• spurning
• throwing away
• throwing out
• negativing
• jettisoning

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of electing

Despite electing a woman president in 2010, Brazil has one of the lowest levels of female political representation in Latin America, ranking almost dead last. —Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024

As such, the best practice is not implementing AI in places that will put a machine in the role of electing how a person will be treated in areas of the talent experience. —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024

The opening was pitch-perfect for the audience of more than 20,000 Veep fans who received a Zoom link after donating to the night’s sponsor, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, in hopes of electing Harris and running mate Tim Walz into the White House for 2024. —Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019