CANDIDATES Synonyms

• an ambitious and aspiring young person

• desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

• a politician who is running for public office

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• a person who participates in competitions

• a person who dissents from some established policy

• a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise

• any new participant in some activity

• someone who enters

• one who enters a competition

• having or manifesting hope

• an ambitious and aspiring young person

• likely to turn out well in the future

• a politician who is running for public office

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• someone who travels on foot by running

• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a trained athlete who competes in foot races

• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

• a long narrow carpet

• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

• someone making a search or inquiry

• a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)

• a man who courts a woman

• a politician who is running for public office

• a politician who is running for public office

• the possibility of future success

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

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

• the visual percept of a region

• a prediction of the course of a disease

• search for something desirable

• explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals