"re-elect" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "re-elects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-electing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-elected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-elected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "re-elect"
      },
      "expansion": "re-elect (third-person singular simple present re-elects, present participle re-electing, simple past and past participle re-elected)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "reelect"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Stephen, “Network News: RMT's Cash retires after claims of harassment”, in Rail, page 18",
          "text": "Cash, who was appointed to the role following the death of Bob Crow in 2014 and then re-elected for a further five-year term in August 2019, had reportedly faced a number of clashes with the union's National Executive Committee in recent months.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative spelling of reelect"
      ],
      "id": "en-re-elect-en-verb-1gOOU9jS",
      "links": [
        [
          "reelect",
          "reelect#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "re-election"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "re-elect"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "re-elects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-electing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-elected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "re-elected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "re-elect"
      },
      "expansion": "re-elect (third-person singular simple present re-elects, present participle re-electing, simple past and past participle re-elected)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "re-election"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "reelect"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 18, Paul Stephen, “Network News: RMT's Cash retires after claims of harassment”, in Rail, page 18",
          "text": "Cash, who was appointed to the role following the death of Bob Crow in 2014 and then re-elected for a further five-year term in August 2019, had reportedly faced a number of clashes with the union's National Executive Committee in recent months.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative spelling of reelect"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reelect",
          "reelect#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "re-elect"
}