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

Similar:
choose, adopt, advance, elect, assign, forechoose, rechoose, cooptate, optate, pick up, more...

Opposite:
sublate, demote, degrade

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Similar:
choose, adopt, advance, elect, assign, forechoose, rechoose, cooptate, optate, pick up, more...

Opposite:
sublate, demote, degrade



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