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candidature

/kan-di-duh-see,/US // ˈkæn dɪ də si, //

候选人资格,候选资格,候选人,候选者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the fact or state of running for office or of seeking a position, title, degree, etc.: She has announced her candidacy for the 51st seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.

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Examples

  • Warnock and Ossoff successfully used $2,000 stimulus checks as a battle cry for their candidacies after Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the Democratic controlled House’s bill to raise the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000.

  • He announced his candidacy in a video posted to his social media accounts.

  • Ten days after his resignation he announced his candidacy for the seat he had just given up in the Ward 2 Democratic primary.

  • Negative partisanship has also raised the stakes, crowding out the possibilities for a centrist independent candidacy to divide a party.

  • This approach has won him allies — the conservative Club for Growth endorsed his candidacy — but not all of his no votes are popular.

  • I shall go and see him and will explain the meaning of this candidature which has surprised some of these gentlemen so much.

  • But the Richmond influence carried both east and west, and Mr. Holroyd withdrew his candidature.

  • The provocation was supplied at the right moment by the candidature of the prince of Hohenzollern for the vacant crown of Spain.

  • He answered him that he would borrow a much greater sum of him if he would support his candidature.

  • Finally the questioning flickered out, no one withdrew their candidature, and the voting commenced.