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  • noun The process or act of deselecting.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ selection

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Examples

  • Earlier this week, the veteran politician called the deselection of Mr Rahman an "utterly unacceptable" move by Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) which "ignored the views of the local electorate".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • The decision to call a deselection vote had caused tensions within the national party as Truss appears on party leader David Cameron's 'A-list' of candidates, aimed to increase the proportion of female and ethnic minority Conservative MPs.

    Epolitix News 2009

  • The decision to call a deselection vote has caused tensions with the national party, as Ms Truss is on David Cameron's A-list of would-be candidates.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • The decision to call a deselection vote had caused tensions within the national party as Truss appears on party leader David Cameron's 'A-list' of candidates, aimed to increase the proportion of female and ethnic minority Conservative MPs.

    Epolitix News 2009

  • There are copious charts and graphs showing the "deselection" process and how liberals or maybe conservatives who liked wolves, who knows? were filtered out.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Sir Patrick certainly has got his arse in gear since his 'deselection'.

    Sir Patrick Cormack Speaks... 2007

  • There was an interesting comment made to me by a journalist at the Norwich North count who mentioned that the Green Party had in its deselection of a local candidate in favour of another in Norwich North and through its other internal problems which have started to appear, discovered that it is a political party with egos, factions and all the same problems and divisions of any other political party.

    The murky politics of the Green Party Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • There was an interesting comment made to me by a journalist at the Norwich North count who mentioned that the Green Party had in its deselection of a local candidate in favour of another in Norwich North and through its other internal problems which have started to appear, discovered that it is a political party with egos, factions and all the same problems and divisions of any other political party.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009

  • Based on statistical models, Hanushek argued that the "deselection" of ineffective teachers would be more beneficial than professional development to improve teacher quality.

    John Thompson: Why Can't School "Reformers" Listen to Education Experts? John Thompson 2011

  • After all, why would the Creator of the universe, the One who caused all things to be, the archetype of abundance, who holds everything together through the power of his word, before whom every knee shall bow choose to be incarnate as an example of an evolutionary dead end destined for Darwinian deselection?

    Elton John, theologian « Anglican Samizdat 2010

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