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What (who) is Deselect - definition
deselect
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¦ verb
1. Brit. reject (an existing MP) as a candidate in a forthcoming election.
2. Computing turn off (a feature) on a list of options.
Derivatives
deselection noun
Deselection of Labour MPs
Deselection in the UK Labour Party is the process by which support for an MP is withdrawn by their local party meaning that the MP is unable to stand in a forthcoming General Election with the support of the party .
select
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SELECT; Select (disambiguation)
(selects, selecting, selected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you select something, you choose it from a number of things of the same kind.
Voters are selecting candidates for both US Senate seats and for 52 congressional seats...
The movie is being shown in selected cities.
= choose
VERB: V n, V-ed, also V n for/from n
2.
If you select a file or a piece of text on a computer screen, you click on it so that it is marked in a different colour, usually in order for you to give the computer an instruction relating to that file or piece of text. (COMPUTING)
I selected a file and pressed the Delete key.
VERB: V n
3.
A select group is a small group of some of the best people or things of their kind.
...a select group of French cheeses...
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
If you describe something as select, you mean it has many desirable features, but is available only to people who have a lot of money or who belong to a high social class.
Christian Lacroix is throwing a very lavish and very select party.
= exclusive
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Examples of use of Deselect
1. Previously, Mr Livingstone has questioned the authority of the quango to effectively deselect democratically elected politicians.
2. It has since emerged the police had taken the decision to deselect the men as part of an ‘advance diversity‘ drive.
3. Bob Spink, MP for Castle Point, Essex, was kicked out of the Parliamentary party after a third attempt by members of his local party to deselect him over his affair with Gail Boland, partner of the deputy chairman, Bill Sharp.
4. I don‘t know where those figures she quoted came from." The Guardian has learned that angry members of the local Labour party have privately begun discussing the possibility of a move to try to deselect the Blairite minister.
5. This came after the North Wiltshire Conservative Association‘s executive voted in November to deselect him following revelations that he cheated on Sarah, his wife of 2' years, while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.