Candidate vs Aspirant - What's the difference?
candidate | aspirant |
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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As nouns the difference between aspirant and candidate
is that aspirant is someone who aspires to high office etc while candidate is a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.As an adjective aspirant
is seeking advancement.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.}}