What is the difference between candidacy and candidate?
candidacy | candidate |
the state, or act of being a candidate
* 1844 Epes Sargent - The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay
* 2002 Allan H. Keith - Turbulent Times
* 1984 Kenneth Meyer Setton - The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571)
A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody maybe suitable for or in danger of something or somebody.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
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Candidate is a related term of candidacy.
Candidate is a derived term of candidacy.
As nouns the difference between candidacy and candidate
is that candidacy is the state, or act of being a candidate while candidate is a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.candidacy
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(candidacies)- Let it be borne in mind, moreover, that since the period of his last candidacy he has rendered the most memorable services to the country
- However, this almost certainly happened because of the third party candidacy of former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt
- Anyhow, if the opportunity presented itself, Requesens thought that Philip should support the candidacies of Giovanni Ricci, Clemente Dolerá, and Ghislieri, . . .
candidate
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(en noun)Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}