- 1候任總統、總統當選人
A president-elect is someone who has already won the election for president, but has not started the job yet. There is a waiting stretch between winning and being sworn in. During that time they are not yet president; they are president-elect. News writing keeps the . The same pattern exists for other posts: mayor-elect, governor-elect. Though actually, people often slip and say “the president” the night the votes are counted, which is natural and , but not exact — the old president may still be in office until inauguration day. The word is formal and belongs to and journalism more than to everyday chat.
組成president + -elect (already chosen by vote, not yet in the post).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
president-electnoun/ˌpɹɛzɪdənt ɪˈlɛkt/
- 1
A person who has been elected to a presidency but has not yet been inducted into office.
- 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)
- 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。