snap election
/ˌsnæp iˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A legislature should no more encourage and sustain snap elections, than a court should encourage and sustain snap judgment."
- "The echoes of the election of President by snap election ticket, which had been brewing sub rosa for almost a year, forced these views upon my mind."
- "Mr. [Sidney] HOLLAND.—I think it is important for the House to know, because there are fairly widespread rumours going round of a general election. I do not know where the rumours came from. The Right Hon. Mr. [Peter] FRASER said that he could not authenticate the rumours. There would not be anything in the nature of a snap election."
- "Let hon. members stop putting the red strips of bacon under the cellophane in the hope that because they are getting in first or are yelling the loudest they are going to take all the political advantage they can from it, hoping to win a snap election by offering the old people nothing and covering it up with aid to a few in the 55 to 65 age group."
- "Last year, in an excess of arrogance, the dictatorship called for its doom in a snap election. The people obliged. With over a million signatures, they drafted me to challenge the dictatorship. And I obliged."
- "The chief whip was in no doubt that had [Marilyn] Waring agreed to tear up the letter, stay in the caucus, and attend select committees, [Robert] Muldoon would have accepted that and not contemplated a snap election."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsnæp iˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /ˌsnæp ɪˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/