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n. A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.

n. A student who has nearly completed the requirements for a degree.

n. One that seems likely to gain a certain position or come to a certain fate: young actors who are candidates for stardom; a memorandum that is a good candidate for the trash can.

n. A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.

n. A participant in an examination.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. One who seeks or is an aspirant for something other than office or preferment: as, a candidate for literary fame; “a candidate of heaven,”

n. A member of the white-robed body-guard of the Roman emperors, established about 237 a. d. by Gordianus the Younger.

n. a politician who is running for public office

n. someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

"Polling on a write-in candidate is notoriously hard to do accurately, for starters."

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candle    chandlery    candelabrum    chandler    candela    candlepower    candid    candlestick   

Manchurian candidate    candidacy   

confirmand    probationer    licentiate    competent    sit    run   

member    vote    politician    president    organization    representative    student    player    voter    manager