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deselect

 verb
     
Related topics: Voting, Computers
de‧sel‧ect [transitive]
1TDTD to remove something from a list of choices on a computer
2 British EnglishPPV if members of a political party deselect an existing Member of Parliament, they refuse to choose him or her as a candidate at the next election
—deselection noun [uncountable]
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