president-elect

See also: President-elect

English

Etymology

From president +‎ -elect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɛzɪdənt ɪˈlɛkt/

Noun

president-elect (plural presidents-elect)

1. (sum of parts) A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office. [from 18th c.]

   If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (1932, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 3)

   • 1828, [James Fenimore Cooper], “To the Professor Jansen, &c. &c.”, in Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor. In Two Volumes, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey, […], →OCLC, page 199:

     Late on the evening of the 3d of March Congress rose, but in point of fact, the change of Executive power was not made until the President elect took the oath of Office.

   • 1992, Tapan Prasad Biswal, Ghana: Political and Constitutional Developments, page 166:

     The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (later to be referred as AFRC) government handed over the reins of government to the president elect of the Third Republic Dr. Hilla Limann, thus ending seven and a half years of military rule.

   • 2016 November 16, Sam Thielman, The Guardian:

     Four in five white evangelicals who cast a vote last week did so for president-elect Trump, who repeatedly encouraged violence at his rallies and bragged that being a celebrity meant no one would stop him from grabbing women “by the pussy”.

Translations

person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office

• Armenian: նորընտիր նախագահ (norəntir naxagah)
• Catalan: president electe m, presidenta electa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 候任總統 / 候任总统 (hòurèn zǒngtǒng)

• Esperanto: prezidonto
• Finnish: presidentiksi valittu, tuleva presidentti
• French: président élu m, présidente élue f
• Georgian: არჩეული პრეზიდენტი (arčeuli ṗrezidenṭi)
• German: designierter Präsident m, gewählter Präsident m
• Hungarian: megválasztott elnök (hu)
• Italian: presidente eletto m, presidente eletta f, presidentessa eletta f
• Japanese: 大統領当選者 (だいとうりょうとうせんしゃ, daitōryō tōsensha)
• Paraguayan Guaraní: tetã ruvicharã
• Portuguese: presidente eleito
• Spanish: presidente electo m, presidente electa f, presidenta electa f
• Swedish: tillträdande president c
• Vietnamese: tân cử tổng thống, tổng thống tân cử (Vietnam)

References

• “president-elect”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.