adlect

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verb

To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

OriginLatin adlegō →
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Meanings

verbadlect (third-person singular simple present adlects, present participle adlecting, simple past and past participle adlected)

present singular third person adlects · participle present adlecting · participle past adlected · past adlected

  1. To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Origin

  1. Latinadlegō
  2. Englishadlect

From adlēct-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adlegō, an alternative spelling of allegō (“to select, choose, recruit, or elect; to admit (to or into something)”).

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APA

adlect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adlect

MLA

“adlect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adlect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adlect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adlect.

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