primary election

1. 1.

   a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

   Synonymsprimary

   Broaderelection

   Narrowerdirect primary

Questions about primary election

What does primary election mean?

primary election means "a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen".

What is another word for primary election?

Close synonyms include primary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is primary election a common word?

primary election 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.