writ of election

1. 1.

   a writ ordering the holding of an election

   Broaderwrit

   law

Questions about writ of election

What does writ of election mean?

writ of election means "a writ ordering the holding of an election".

Is writ of election a common word?

writ of 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.