Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.
- noun A student who has nearly completed the requirements for a degree.
- noun One that seems likely to gain a certain position or come to a certain fate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who seeks or is put forward by others for an office or honor; one who offers himself or is proposed for office or preferment, by election or appointment: as, a candidate for the office of sheriff, or for a degree.
- To render qualified as a candidate.
- To become a candidate; seek or aspire to some office; offer one's self or one's services as a candidate, as a clergyman seeking a parish or a charge; compete with others as a candidate.
- noun One who seeks or is an aspirant for something other than office or preferment: as, a candidate for literary fame; “a candidate of heaven,”
- noun A member of the white-robed body-guard of the Roman emperors, established about 237
a. d. by Gordianus the Younger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person who isrunning in anelection or who isapplying to aposition for ajob . - noun A
participant in anexamination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a politician who is running for public office
- noun someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Polling on a write-in candidate is notoriously hard to do accurately, for starters.
Chris Weigant: Senate Midterm Election Overview Chris Weigant 2010
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The main candidate is Jose Serra, who was the governor of Sao Paulo State, and he's a very capable administrator, and he had been very popular in this area.
Brazil's 'Most Popular Politician On Earth' Prepares Exit 2010
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Polling on a write-in candidate is notoriously hard to do accurately, for starters.
Chris Weigant: Senate Midterm Election Overview Chris Weigant 2010
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The traditional role of the VP candidate is to attack the Presidential candidate from the other party - the Prez candidate himself can be quiet to keep his hands clean, but the case needs to be made.
Random thoughts on the Democratic National Convention frankwu 2008
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I have no idea what a Bush/McCain candidate is .... to my recollection, McCain is a member of the Senate .... not the executive branch.
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Fortunately that fear-monger/anything to win candidate is done .....
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The two joined forces against a local candidate from a powerful English Protestant mercantile family, Lieutenant Robert Carter, to support a drop-in candidate from St. John's, Irish Catholic merchant Patrick Morris. 12 When the polls opened, Winsor spoke against Carter, using "very tantalizing language towards him to create popularity among the crowd."
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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How did a discussion of whether a candidate is a good Christian become part and parcel of a discussion of who should enter a national political body in the year 2010?
Stanton Peele: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat Stanton Peele 2010
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How did a discussion of whether a candidate is a "good Christian" become part and parcel of a discussion of who should enter a national political body in the year 2010?
Stanton Peele: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat Stanton Peele 2010
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How did a discussion of whether a candidate is a "good Christian" become part and parcel of a discussion of who should enter a national political body in the year 2010?
Stanton Peele: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat Stanton Peele 2010
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