candidate
IPA: kˈændʌdeɪt
noun
- A person who is running in an election.
- A person who is applying for a job.
- A participant in an examination.
- Something or somebody that may be suitable.
- (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
verb
- (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).
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Examples of "candidate" in Sentences
- The candidate raved to get more votes.
- Gray is the first of the candidates to vote.
- He persuaded people to elect the other candidate.
- The surplus is the candidate's vote minus the quota.
- The winner is the candidate receiving the most votes.
- The remainder of the vote went to candidate Herb Rubenstein.
- Fortunately that fear-monger/anything to win candidate is done .....
- He is the candidate for the Reformist Coalition for the 2009 election.
- The winner is the candidate who receives a plurality of the popular vote.
- The winner of the seat is determined by the candidate with the most votes.
- Candidates are advised of the outcome of the election shortly after the ballot.
- 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."
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