candidate

IPA: kˈændʌdeɪt

(uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
(nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).

Examples of "candidate" in Sentences

Fortunately that fear-monger/anything to win candidate is done .....
Polling on a write-in candidate is notoriously hard to do accurately, for starters.
I have no idea what a Bush/McCain candidate is .... to my recollection, McCain is a member of the Senate .... not the executive branch.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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."