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adlect.

To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Where this word comes from

From adlēct-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adlegō, an alternative spelling of allegō (“to select, choose, recruit, or elect; to admit (to or into something)”).

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