Word Meanings - ELECTORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office or status of an elector.

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• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• ELECTORESS
  An electress. Bp. Burnet.
• ELECTORSHIP
  The office or status of an elector.
• ELECTORALITY
  The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. Sir H. Wotton.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• ELECTOR
  1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office. 2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote. 3. In the old
• STATUS IN QUO; STATUS QUO
  The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state before the war.
• ELECTORIAL
  Electoral. Burke.
• STATUS
  State; condition; position of affairs.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• PRELECTOR
  A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.
• SELECTOR
  One who selects.
• OVEROFFICE
  To domineer over by virtue of office. Shak.