candidate
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- (British) IPA: /ˈkæn.dɪdət/, /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
- (America) IPA: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/, /ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/
- (America, colloquially) IPA: /ˈkæn.ɪ.dɪt/, /ˈkæn.ɪ.deɪt/
candidate (plural candidates)
A person who is running in an election. - Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
A person who is applying for a job. - All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
A participant in an examination. - Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
Something or somebody that may be suitable. - After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
(genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
- French: candidat, candidate
- German: Kandidat, Kandidatin, Wahlbewerber, Wahlbewerberin
- Italian: candidato, candidata
- Portuguese: candidato, candidata
- Russian: кандида́т
- Spanish: candidato, candidata
- German: Bewerber, Bewerberin, Stellenbewerber, Stellenbewerberin, Anwärter, Anwärterin, Stellenanwärter, Stellenanwärterin, Kandidat, Kandidatin, Jobkandidat, Jobkandidatin
- Italian: candidato, candidata
- Portuguese: candidato, candidata
- Spanish: candidato, candidata, participante
candidate (candidates, present participle candidating; simple past and past participle candidated)
- (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
- 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:
- The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
- (nonstandard, chiefly, in jargon and NNES) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
- French: candidater
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