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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(politics) The process by which a candidate for public office is selected, usually by a political party.
The preselection in Mr Costello's Victorian seat of Higgins will start in April, when he will have to reveal whether he will stand for another term.
Suddenly, the doctor and the geneticist have have become active partners in the creation of human life through artificial insemination, sex preselection, test-tube babies, host mothers, recombinant DNA technology, […]
After automated particle preselection, manual verification, and selection by cross-correlation, 18,801 particles were chosen for the vacant 40S subunit, 20,939 particles for the IRES-40S complex, and 13,613 particles for the IRES dII-40S complex.
In compos which are potentially crammed like the music compos, preselection is a necessary evil. [...] 15-16 songs [...] are thus chosen to be played to the audience.
Every entry will be released [...], unless it was preselected/disqualified, or the competition was canceled.
Use preselection when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Preselection means (politics) The process by which a candidate for public office is selected, usually by a political party.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The preselection in Mr Costello's Victorian seat of Higgins will start in April, when he will have to reveal whether he will stand for another term.
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