Synonyms for selection
sɪˈlɛk ʃənse·lec·tion

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1. selection

   Synonyms:
   choice, option, election, excerption, gathering, preoption, segregation, adoption, preference

   Antonyms:
   rejection, repudiation, refusal, exclusion, postponement

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1. choice, selection, option, picknoun

   the act of choosing or selecting

   "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"

   Synonyms:
   extract, cream, survival, filling, alternative, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, pick, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, weft, pickax, pickaxe

2. selectionnoun

   an assortment of things from which a choice can be made

   "the store carried a large selection of shoes"

   Synonyms:
   pick, survival, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

3. choice, pick, selectionnoun

   the person or thing chosen or selected

   "he was my pick for mayor"

   Synonyms:
   pickax, pick, filling, alternative, survival, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, option, woof, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, cream, weft, extract, pickaxe

4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selectionnoun

   a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

   Synonyms:
   survival, pick, endurance, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

5. excerpt, excerption, extract, selectionnoun

   a passage selected from a larger work

   "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"

   Synonyms:
   survival, pick, excerpt, choice, extract, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection, infusion

Matched Categories

1. • Assortment
   • Decision Making
   • Natural Process
   • Passage

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, pick

2. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   democracy

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1. selectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, election, preference, pick, collection, assortment

   Antonyms:
   promiscuity, indiscrimination

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1. List of paraphrases for "selection":

   selecting, shift, choice, select, screening, sélection, selected, choices, adjudication, choosing, breeding, selector, choose, selections, election, sel, selectivity, option, pick

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1. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

2. Fencing Adelaide - Fencing World:

   Secure your property whether a commercial, industrial and residential area with best Fencing Adelaide that looks attractive with selection traditional style of fencing with a different range of material that includes steel and has wide verities of style and colors. For different purpose property, pool, the garden there need to have fenced in Adelaide. Where traditional fencing is not expensive and comes within the budget.

3. Sachin Baby:

   I hail from a place where there is no cricket ground, no coaching centers, no facilities. It was in the newspapers where I discovered about the upcoming selection trials. I was accompanied to the venue by my mother and was lucky enough to be selected. As far as I remember, we had to travel a distance of about 60 kilometers to arrive at the venue for the trials.”

4. Timothy Barrett:

   These factors include the number of Court-approved selection terms - like a phone number - that are used by the target; the way targets use those selection terms; the amount of historical data that providers retain; and the dynamics of the ever-changing telecommunications sector, we expect this number to fluctuate from year to year.

5. Probaerb:

   Longer the time duration of the job interview process and its rounds, higher the humiliation of the job aspirants by the organization and bigger the intention of selection of the foolish candidates for the vacant position.