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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 the
prospective recipient of an
award or honor, or a
person s****ing or
being considered for some kind of position; for example:...
- A
perennial candidate is a
political candidate who
frequently runs for
elected office and rarely, if ever, wins.
Perennial candidates are most common...
- 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...
- 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...
-
candidate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
Manchurian Candidate is a 1959
political thriller novel by
Richard Condon. The
Manchurian Candidate...
-
Candidate (Latin:
candidatus or candidata) is the name of
various academic degrees,
which are
today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The
degree title was...
- The
Candidates Tournament (or in some
periods Candidates Matches) is a
chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's
international governing body, since...
-
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...
- In
British politics, a
prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) is a
candidate selected by
political parties to
fight individual Westminster constituencies...
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expecting to win.
Novelty candidates are
similar to and
sometimes synonymous with
perennial candidates, but
whereas perennial candidates sometimes run on substantive...
