Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 9 compound words that contain candidate. The most common are listed below. Open candidate in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- Presidential Candidate
- release candidateA version of a program that is nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version.
- paper candidateAn election candidate with little chance of winning, who runs a minimal or no campaign, and who is added to the ballot for publicity, to increase the number of candidates standing and/or try to ensure their party has a candidate in every …
- private candidateOne who enters an examination without being enrolled as a student at the educational establishment where it is given.
- candidate keyIn the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique value or set of values in each row. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) will be the primary key.
- Manchurian candidateA person of influence, especially a politician, who is being manipulated by an enemy power to harm the interests of their own country, possibly without their own full awareness.
- nuisance candidateA candidate for election meant to present the election process as a mockery or disrepute or to cause confusion among voters (e.g. via similarity of names of candidates)
- parachute candidateA candidate who runs for political office in an area where they do not live and with which they have no previous connection.
- candidate keysplural of candidate key: In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique value or set of values in each row. One of the candidate keys (abbreviated CKs) …
- captive candidateA political candidate who is under the control or influence of another person.
- darkhorse candidateOne who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice
Compound words 9
- candidatureThe condition of becoming a candidate; candidateship.
- excandidateA former candidate; one who was formerly a candidate but no longer is.
- precandidateA person approved as a possible candidate.
- candidatingThe taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.
- KlandidateA political candidate for elected office who is really or allegedly connected with or similar in views to the Ku Klux Klan.
- multicandidateInvolving multiple candidates
- noncandidateSomeone who is not an official candidate for an office.
- candidateshipCandidacy.
- candidateshipsplural of candidateship: Candidacy.