Definition of CANDIDATE. Meaning of CANDIDATE. Synonyms of CANDIDATE

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Definition of CANDIDATE

Candidate
Candidate Can"di*date, n. [L. Candidatus, n. (because candidates for office in Rome were clothed in a white toga.) fr. candidatus clothed in white, fr. candiduslittering, white: cf. F. candidat.] 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; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

Meaning of CANDIDATE from wikipedia

- A candidate, or nominee, is a prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person s****ing or being considered for some kind of position. For example...
- The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. It is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political...
- write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but s****s election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically...
- candidate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 political thriller novel by Richard Condon. The Manchurian Candidate...
- A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely, if ever, wins. Perennial candidates are most common...
- Candidate (Latin: candidatus or candidata) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The degree title was...
- Officer candidate or officer aspirant (OA) is a rank in some militaries of the world that is an appointed position while a person is in training to become...
- Look up candidate or candid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A candidate is a person or thing s****ing or being considered for some kind of position:...
- The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since...
- expecting to win. Novelty candidates are similar to and sometimes synonymous with perennial candidates, but whereas perennial candidates sometimes run on substantive...