self-select
verb[IorT]
uk/ˌself.sɪˈlekt/us/ˌself.səˈlekt/tochoosesomething yourself,ratherthan have someonechooseit for you:
Voters who self-select toregisterRepublicanmake up about 31% ofvotersin California.
Sincepeopleself-selectgroupmemberswho they alreadyknowandtrust, theissueofadverseselectionisavoided.
- Although the theprisonsystemistechnicallyintegrated,inmatesoften self-select alongracialandethniclines.
- People who self-selectannuitiestendto behealthierthanaverage.
- Children who are alreadyaggressivewill self-selectpeersthat aresimilarto them at an earlyage.
Taking and choosing
- adopt
- adopted
- adoption
- appoint
- bags I...idiom
- either-or
- elect
- empanel
- faute de mieux
- favoured
- go forsomeone
- picker
- plump
- Robin Hood
- select
- selection
- selective
- selectively
- selector
- skim