"general election" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-general election.wav [Southern-England] Forms: general elections [plural], general [alternative], generals [alternative], general elections [alternative]
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  1. An election following the regular procedure to elect officers in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a region or nation. Coordinate_terms (type of election): primary election (english: intraparty elections to decide general election candidates), special election (english: irregular elections to fill specific vacancies) Translations (election held in all or most constituencies within a region or nation): انتخابات عامة (intiḵābāt ʕāmma) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), elecció general [feminine] (Catalan), 大選 /大选 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 大選 /大选 (daai⁶ syun²) (Chinese Cantonese), 大選 /大选 (dàxuǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), parlamentsvalg [neuter] (Danish), algemene verkiezingen [feminine, plural] (Dutch), ĝenerala balotado (Esperanto), parlamenttivaalit [plural] (Finnish), eduskuntavaalit (Finnish), élections générales [feminine, plural] (French), elección xeral [feminine] (Galician), საყოველთაო არჩევნები (saq̇oveltao arčevnebi) (Georgian), allgemeine Wahlen [feminine, plural] (German), általános választás (Hungarian), pemilihan umum (Indonesian), olltoghchán [masculine] (Irish), elezioni generali [feminine, plural] (Italian), 総選挙 (sōsenkyo) (alt: そうせんきょ) (Japanese), pilihan umum (Javanese), ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಚುನಾವಣೆ (sārvatrika cunāvaṇe) (Kannada), 총선거 (chongseon'geo) (Korean), 총선 (chongseon) (Korean), pilihan raya umum (Malay), parlamentsvalg [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), parlamentsval [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), انتخابات سراسری (entexâbât sarâsari) (Persian), wybory powszechne [nonvirile, plural] (Polish), eleição geral [feminine] (Portuguese), alegeri generale [feminine, plural] (Romanian), всео́бщие вы́боры (vseóbščije výbory) [masculine, plural] (Russian), о̏пћӣ ѝзбори [Cyrillic, masculine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), ȍpćī ìzbor [Latin, masculine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), මහා මැතිවරණ (mahā mætiwaraṇa) (Sinhalese), uchaguzi mkuu (Swahili), allmänt val [neuter] (Swedish), การเลือกตั้งทั่วไป (gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng-tûua-bpai) (Thai), genel seçim (Turkish), عام انتخابات (āmm intixābāt) [masculine, plural] (Urdu), tổng tuyển cử (Vietnamese), etholiad cyffredinol [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of erection. Tags: Cockney, slang Synonyms: erection [synonym, synonym-of]
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "lang_code": "cy",
      "sense": "election held in all or most constituencies within a region or nation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "etholiad cyffredinol"
    }
  ],
  "word": "general election"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": tāi-soán vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "general election"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "general election",
  "trace": ""
}

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