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candidate: someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

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running mate collapse: a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices

also ran collapse

lame duck collapse: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

aspirant collapse: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"; desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

dud collapse: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"

dark horse collapse: a racehorse about which little is known; a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly

assignee collapse: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

claimant collapse: someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the throne"

seeker collapse: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves); someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth"

stalking horse collapse

petitioner collapse: one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors"

pretender collapse: a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title)

postgraduate collapse

suppliant collapse: humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"

postulant collapse: one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

solicitor collapse: a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents; a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes

suitor collapse: a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess"

devotee collapse

hopeful collapse: having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"

addict collapse: someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms; someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"; to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

collector collapse: the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes; a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth; a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes); a person who collects things

entry collapse: an item inserted in a written record; a written record of a commercial transaction

lover collapse: a person who loves or is loved; a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

votary collapse: a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity; "the cultured votary of science"; a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult; "a votary of Aphrodite"; one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service; "monasteries of votaries"

graduate collapse: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts; confer an academic degree upon; "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"; receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990"

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