selectee

noun

sə-ˌlek-ˈtē How to pronounce selectee (audio)
Definition of selecteenext
1
as in recruit
a person forced or required to enroll in military service had the dubious distinction of being the last selectee to serve in the Vietnam War

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2
as in nominee
one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty NASA's roster of selectees for its astronaut training program

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Recent Examples of selectee The selectees, announced yesterday (June 9), were NASA's Randy Bresnik (commander), the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Luca Parmitano (pilot), and NASA mission specialists Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 10 June 2026 Under former coach Billy Napier, the Gators’ NFL output dwindled, best illustrated by the Gators having a single pick in 2024 and no selectees in the first three rounds last year. — Noah White, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026 Ars Technica's space reporters ranked the five selectees for the European Launcher Challenge in order from most likely to least likely to reach orbit. — ArsTechnica, 11 July 2025 The church, erected in 1921, is among the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2024 selectees. — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024 Each of the selectees for 2023 can reasonably be considered a household name. — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for selectee
  1. recruit
  2. nominee
  3. conscript
  4. candidate
  5. inductee
Noun
  • The Horned Frogs will need Hayward’s pass rushing expertise to harass Baylor junior quarterback DJ Lagway, a former five-star recruit that transferred in from Florida.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
  • At, 6-foot-3, 175 pounds, Marshall is a four-star recruit with 16 Power Four offers, according to 247Sports.
    — PJ Green October 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • Adam Hamilton Hamilton, the Democratic nominee, has characterized the war as a major foreign policy blunder.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The final anthology has 34, including Schreck, Tony nominee and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, Tony and Pulitzer nominee Sarah Ruhl, and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow Migdalia Cruz, among others.
    — Carey Purcell, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2026
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  • At the same time, Sobyanin, who is widely seen as a pragmatist, has rebuffed calls by Russian hawks for a broad mobilization of conscripts and putting the entire economy on a war footing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Peyr’s book was inspired by the real case of the disappeared of Mourmelon, in which a number of young men, most of them military conscripts, went missing over several years in the 1980s.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of conscript
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  • After all, states like Georgia and Arizona were also once solidly red until break-out candidates—backed by party spending—upended those assumptions.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • But most of the likely Democratic candidates simply don’t agree that a genocide happened in Gaza, and reject the question’s premise.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Oct. 2026
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  • The Walk of Fame features bronze stars embedded into the sidewalk along Smallman Street with plaques that detail the accomplishments of each inductee.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductee returns with Pick You Up (via Old Green Barn Productions LLC), a seven-track collection produced by Crow and guitarist Jeff Trott and recorded at her Old Green Barn home studio.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of inductee

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“Selectee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selectee. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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