Definition of Candidates

1. Noun. (plural of candidate) ¹

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Definition of Candidates

1. candidate [n] - See also: candidate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Candidates

candicidin
candid
candid camera
candida
candida micro-abscesses
candidacies
candidacy
candidaemia
candidaemias
candidal
candidalike
candidas
candidate
candidate species
candidates
candidateship
candidateships
candidating
candidature
candidatures
candidemia
candidemias
candider
candidest
candidiases
candidiasis of oesophagus
candidity
candidly

Literary usage of Candidates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The bishops of the province discuss the merits of the candidates and transmit ... The names of the three candidates who have obtained the greatest number of ..."

2. The Lancet (1842)
"The evidence on which they would found their opinions, would be— The written publications of the candidates ; Answers to written and oral questions ..."

3. Report by Canada Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Present Condition of the Civil Service (1877)
"The general duties or the Board are defined in the 25th section of the Act, so far as the examination of candidates for employment in the Civil Service is ..."

4. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"If one of the two candidates to be voted for was taken from the North, policy required to take the other from the ..."

5. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1908)
"The Machines are always enabled to print the tickets and distribute them by means of assessments levied on candidates and office-holders. ..."

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