reelect

To elect for a second or subsequent time.

Verb

  1. To elect for a second or subsequent time.
    • Voters in Omaha were set to make history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor. - 2025 May 14, “Omaha poised to have first Black...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English elect English reelect From re- + elect.

Forms

reelects reelecting reelected re-elect reëlect

Related

reelection