Candidate

Definitions: Candidate

Candidate

Noun

1. A politician who is running for public office.

2. Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "candidate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Candidate \Can"di*date\, noun. [Latin expression Candidatus, noun (because candidates for office in Rome were clothed in white toga.) from candidatus clothed in white, from candiduslittering, white: compare to the French expression candidat.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Candidate

Desire

Lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant.

Government

Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal.

Madman

Noun: madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, madcap, crazy; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac; (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam.

Offer

Offer oneself, present oneself; volunteer, come forward, be a candidate; stand for, bid for; seek; be at one's service; go a begging; bribe; (give).

Petitioner

Noun: petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer; seeker.

Crosswords: Candidate

What does the candidate like? (Kolchak: The Night Stalker; writing credit: David Chase; Rudolph Borchert)

Candidate for Senate. (Maid in Manhattan; writing credit: Kevin Wade)

A candidate for a soul mate bled ("Otherside"; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

We would all like to vote for the best man, but he is never a candidate. (references; author: unknown)

A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other. (references; author: unknown)

Columbo: Candidate for Crime (1973)

The Candidate (1972)

Candidate for Murder (1961)

The Candid Candidate (1937)

Bébé candidate au mariage (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Answer Guide to How to Become a Candidate Master (reference)

• Officer Candidate Tests (Officer Candidate Tests, 6th Ed) (reference)

• The West Point Candidate Book (reference)

• To Benning and Back: The Making of a Citizen Soldier - My Journals of Daily Life in U.S. Army Basic Training and Officer Candidate School, from Private to Second Lieutenant, from First Call to Lights Out, and Yes, Everything in Between. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cfa Level 1 Candidate Reading (reference)

• Cpa Candidate Performance On The Uniform Cpa Examination (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pilot Candidate - The Academy (Vol. 1) (reference)

• The Candidate (reference)

• A Perfect Candidate (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Manchurian Candidate [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Perfect Candidate (reference)

• Prime Candidate For Burnout (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Public Health Service officer candidate examining board, circa 1912.Credit: CDC.

Black hole candidate in the spiral galaxy M87. (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.).Credit: NASA.

A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Dr. Samuel A. Green : Citizens' Candidate For Mayor Of Boston.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Navy Officer Candidate School recruiting poster issued in 1971.Credit: NAVY.

The candidate of many parties. A phrenological examination to ascertain what his political principles are.Credit: Library of Congress.

The great Republican Reform Party, calling on their candidate.Credit: Library of Congress.

Electioneering in Georgia -- a candidate pleading for a mountaineer's vote.Credit: Library of Congress.

The new pupil. A candidate for post-graduate honors.Credit: Library of Congress.

Looks like you have to refuse to be a candidate if you want to win a nomination these days.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Candidate interventions for AD prevention have been identified. (references)

Recently, however, attenuated candidate vaccine viruses have been developed in Thailand. (references)

This suggests that the patient may be a suitable candidate for a trial of penile injection therapy. (references)

Business

PRD candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas won this race by a clear margin. (references)

The Czech Republic is a candidate for EU accession in 2005 or shortly thereafter. (references)

Vasteras Airport is another candidate to accommodate some of Stockholm's domestic air traffic. (references)

Children

Senegal

The board had refused to hire a candidate with physical disabilities who had passed a recruitment test, on the grounds that persons with physical disabilities were not qualified for the job of teaching. (references)

Mexico

In August 2000, the President's Office announced that 90,000 children with disabilities were integrated into a regular education system between 1994 and 2000. In December 2000, the President established the Citizen's Commission Against Discrimination to be headed by former Social Democracy Party presidential candidate Rincon Gallardo. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

The Government accused them of procuring arms, in cooperation with RDR presidential candidate Ouattara, in order to destabilize the country. (references)

Economic History

Burundi

In 1984, Bagaza was elected head of state, as the sole candidate. (references)

Zambia

Kaunda, the sole candidate, was elected President in the 1973 elections. (references)

Sierra Leone

Joseph Saidu Momoh, Steven's own choice, as the party candidate to succeed Stevens. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

Also in June, parliamentary candidate Otieno Akika shot at voters who allegedly were disorderly, killing one person. (references)

Gambia

UDP supporters were celebrating in the compound of the elected UDP candidate when APRC supporters asked them to stop. (references)

Mexico

Another suspect, the brother of a PRI local deputy candidate, was alleged to have hired Pena and Bernardino to kill Bautista. (references)

Minorities

Lithuania

However, in its report on minority rights in 10 European Union candidate states, the Open Society Institute stated that Lithuania does not have a comprehensive antidiscrimination law that expressly prohibits discrimination in specific areas of public activity. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The new Constitution includes a more restrictive presidential eligibility clause that not only limits presidential candidates to those who can prove that both parents were born citizens in the country, but also states that a candidate never can have benefited from the use of another nationality. (references)

Political Economy

Oman

Each candidate stood individually, as there are no political parties in Oman. (references)

Political Rights

Mauritania

The first female candidate was elected to the Senate. (references)

Kenya

The incumbent candidate for FORD/Kenya won decisively. (references)

Tanzania

CCM candidate Amani Karume was declared the new Zanzibari President. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

The IBA is currently a candidate for privatization. (references)

Cyprus

On March 31, 1998 Cyprus began formal accession negotiations for entry into the EU and is currently a candidate for the EU's next enlargement. (references)

Turkey

The EU confirmed Turkey's status as an EU candidate status in December 1999, and Turkey has begun to reap the benefits of its 1996 customs union agreement with the EU, particularly in terms of improved economic efficiency. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

In 1999, with the help of the CENIDH, Zoilamerica Narvaez filed a complaint with the IACHR against her stepfather, FSLN leader, National Assembly Deputy, and former President Daniel Ortega (a candidate in the November general election) accusing him of sexual molestation and harassment. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

Bisi Dan Musa, a prominent Lagos businesswoman and wife of a former presidential candidate, was arrested and charged with 19 counts of "child stealing" and "slave dealing;" 16 children between the ages of 1 and 4 reportedly were found in her custody. (references)

Venezuela

The Chavez Government, which had endorsed a FBT candidate, Artistobulo Isturiz, claimed that massive fraud had decided the election and refused to recognize Ortega as the winner; however, Ortega assumed the presidency of the CTV despite a threat by the Government to disqualify his election. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "candidate": best qualified candidate ♦ candidate for confirmation ♦ candidate key ♦ doctoral candidate ♦ job candidate ♦ leading candidate ♦ mark smb. as a candidate ♦ matriculation candidate ♦ officer candidate ♦ officer candidate school ♦ perpetual candidate ♦ positional candidate gene ♦ possible candidate ♦ presidential candidate ♦ propose a candidate ♦ qualified candidate ♦ rival candidate ♦ selected candidate ♦ stand as a candidate ♦ successful candidate ♦ support a candidate. Additional references.

Ending with "candidate": multi-candidate.

Afrikaan

kandidaat, applikant. (various references)

Albanian

kandidat (applicant, campaigner, challenger, nominee, postulant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرشح لمنصب, ‏مرشح (distilled, filter, filtered, filtrated, nominee), ‏ترشح (elect, filter, nominate, oozing, percolate, present, put in, run, run for office, stand, transpire), ‏المرشح عن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кандидат (applicant, aspirant, suitor). (various references)

Chinese 

候选人, 候選人 . (various references)

Czech

kandidát (entrant, nominee). (various references)

Danish

ansøger (applicant). (various references)

Dutch

sollicitant, kandidaat, aspirant. (various references)

Esperanto

kandidato. (various references)

Farsi 

نامزد (Nominee), کاندید (Nomination), خواهان (Actor, Complainant, Desirous, Fond, Studious, Wishful), داوطلب (Applicant, Entrant, Volunteer), دادخواه (Complainant, Plaintiff). (various references)

Finnish

ehdokas. (various references)

French

candidat (exam candidate). (various references)

German

bewerber (applicant, applicants, contender, contestant, enrollees), kandidat (applicant, aspirant, contestant, examinee, nominee), anwärter (aspirant, aspirants, candidates, contender, heir, pretender). (various references)

Greek 

υποψήφιος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מועמ�" (applicant, nominee), � בחן (examined, examinee). (various references)

Hungarian

jelölt (applicant, nominee). (various references)

Indonesian

calon (applicant, aspirant, designate, postulant, prospective, recruit), kandidat, aspiran (aspirant). (various references)

Italian

candidato (applicant, aspirant, cadidate, examinee, nominee). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立候補者 , 為り手 (suitable person), 候補者 (applicant), 志願者 (applicant), 志望者 (applicant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しが�"しゃ (applicant), なりて (suitable person), しぼうしゃ (applicant, deaths, persons killed, the deceased), �"うほしゃ (applicant), りっ�"うほしゃ. (various references)

Korean 

후보자. (various references)

Malay

calon. (various references)

Manx

yeearreyder (applicant, entrant), shirreyder (asker, inquirer, inquiring, prospector, searcher, seeker). (various references)

Papiamen

kandidato. (various references)

Pig Latin

andidatecay

Portuguese

candidato (applicant, franchise candidate, prospective franchisee). (various references)

Romanian

candidat (applicant, aspirant, entrant, expectant, nominee, postulant, probable, probationer), pretendent (claimant, lover, pretender, suitor). (various references)

Russian 

кандидат (aspirant, contender, nominee, postulant, presentee). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kandidat (nominee, postulant, prospect), aspirant (aspirant). (various references)

Spanish

candidato (applicant, aspirant, cadidate, hopeful, nominee), aspirante (applicant, aspirant, candidature, hopeful, retractile, would be). (various references)

Swedish

sökande (applicant, applicants, claimant, fumble, poking, postulant, quest, search, searching, seeking, trawl), kandidat (aspirant, bachelor, nominee). (various references)

Thai

ผู้สมัคร, ผู้ท้าชิง. (various references)

Turkish

aday (applicant, aspirant, cadet, contestant, entrant, nominee, postulant, remainderman). (various references)

Turkmen 

kandidatly (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

кандидат (applicant, aspirant, entrant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người ứng cử người dự thi. (various references)

Welsh

ymgeisydd (applicant). (various references)

candidatos, candidatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "candidate": candidates. (additional references)

Words ending with "candidate": noncandidate. (additional references)

Words containing "candidate": noncandidates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Candidate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: candiate, candidat, candidatem, candidating, candidite, canditate, canidate, cantidate, condidate, Handidate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: antacid, candida, candied.

-3 letters: acedia, acetin, addict, adnate, caddie, cadent, candid, canted, catena, centai, danced, decant, detain, didact, dinted, enatic, taenia.

-4 letters: aceta, acned, acted, actin, aecia, aided, antae, anted, antic, cadet, caned, canid, cited, dance, dated, diced, dicta, dined, edict, enact, entia, naiad, nicad, nided, teind, tenia, tided, tinea, tined.

-5 letters: aced, acid, acne, acta, adit, aide, anta, ante, anti, cade, cadi, caid, cain, cane, cant, cate, cedi, cent, cine, cite, dace, dada, data, date, dead, dean, deni, dent, dice, died, diet, dine, dint, dita, dite, edit, etic, etna, iced, idea, nada, neat, nice, nide, nite, tace, tain, tend, tide, tied, tine.

+1 letter: candidates.

+2 letters: candidature, deracinated.

+3 letters: candidatures, noncandidate.

+4 letters: decaffeinated, noncandidates, unadjudicated.

+5 letters: decontaminated.

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