candidate
/ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/ noun B2- A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a position or privilege. · Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.· All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
- A person who is thought likely or worthy to gain a position or privilege.
- A participant in an examination. · Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
- Someone or something likely or suited to undergo or be chosen for a purpose. · After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
- A student taking a degree who has finished the coursework but has other remaining requirements such as a dissertation. · a Ph.D. candidate
- The recipient of certain academic degrees, now mainly awarded in Scandinavia.
- A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
Plural candidates
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He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them.
“The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candidate for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
Candidates have to learn about twenty-five thousand streets within a six-mile radius of the center.
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