electoral college

1. 1.

   the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president

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Questions about electoral college

What does electoral college mean?

electoral college means "the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president".

Is electoral college a common word?

electoral college is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.