Usually means: Individual seeking election or position.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word candidate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. candidate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. candidate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. candidate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. candidate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. candidate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Candidate, candidate, candidate: Wordnik
  7. candidate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. candidate: Wiktionary
  9. candidate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. candidate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. candidate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Candidate, candidate: Dictionary.com
  13. candidate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. candidate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Candidate (David Bowie song), Candidate (band), Candidate (degree), Candidate (disambiguation), Candidate, The Candidate (Frasier), The Candidate (Lost), The Candidate (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Candidate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. candidate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. candidate: Rhymezone
  19. candidate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. candidate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. candidate: Free Dictionary
  22. candidate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Candidate: The Word Detective
  24. candidate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. candidate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. candidate: Legal dictionary
  3. candidate: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candidate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candidate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. candidate: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Candidate: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is running in an election.
noun:  A person who is applying for a job.
noun:  A participant in an examination.
noun:  Something or somebody that may be suitable.
noun:  (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
verb:  (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
verb:  (nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).

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