A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example:... 6 KB (636 words) - 15:09, 21 March 2024 |
Look up candidate or candid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A candidate is a person or thing seeking or being considered for some kind of position:... 2 KB (275 words) - 18:40, 22 April 2021 |
The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. It is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political... 15 KB (1,658 words) - 02:04, 28 April 2024 |
candidate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 political thriller novel by Richard Condon. The Manchurian Candidate... 538 bytes (85 words) - 12:28, 27 February 2024 |
The Candidates Tournament (or in some periods Candidates Matches) is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess's international governing body, since... 48 KB (1,883 words) - 15:14, 28 April 2024 |
In politics, a lead candidate (German: Spitzenkandidat; Dutch: lijsttrekker, lit. 'list puller') is the leader of a political party in an election to... 5 KB (388 words) - 15:12, 21 March 2024 |
The Candidate is a 1972 American political comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle, and directed by Michael Ritchie. The Academy Award–winning... 16 KB (1,979 words) - 03:55, 15 March 2024 |
 | A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely, if ever, wins. Perennial candidates are most common... 80 KB (8,186 words) - 14:16, 26 April 2024 |
write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically... 107 KB (9,805 words) - 22:25, 21 April 2024 |
The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, based on Richard Condon's... 18 KB (1,777 words) - 00:59, 27 April 2024 |
Officer candidate or officer aspirant (OA) is a rank in some militaries of the world that is an appointed position while a person is in training to become... 18 KB (1,975 words) - 14:22, 11 October 2023 |
election. The term originally came into use because of the strict limits on the maximum expenditure permitted to be incurred by an election candidate, regardless... 2 KB (212 words) - 23:51, 10 December 2023 |
Candidate of Philosophy can refer to the US degree or status of Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil. or Ph.C.) granted to Ph.D. students who have been accepted... 8 KB (797 words) - 17:26, 30 November 2023 |
 | The 2024 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2024. The tournament... 60 KB (4,042 words) - 00:22, 1 May 2024 |
dummy candidate is a candidate who stands for election, usually with no intention or realistic chance of winning. A dummy candidate can serve any of the following... 4 KB (482 words) - 21:48, 13 April 2024 |
 | Candidate (Latin: candidatus or candidata) is the name of various academic degrees, which are today mainly awarded in Scandinavia. The degree title was... 31 KB (3,591 words) - 12:47, 8 April 2024 |
 | A Candidate of Sciences or Candidate of Science (Russian: кандидат наук, romanized: kandidat nauk, Ukrainian: кандидат наук, romanized: kandydat nauk,... 20 KB (2,195 words) - 09:57, 11 January 2024 |
The candidate gene approach to conducting genetic association studies focuses on associations between genetic variation within pre-specified genes of... 23 KB (2,679 words) - 22:04, 2 December 2023 |
"Mr. Monk and the Candidate" is the two-part pilot episode of the American comedy drama detective television series Monk. It introduces the character of... 23 KB (2,222 words) - 02:43, 29 November 2023 |
A candidate key, or simply a key, of a relational database is any set of columns that have a unique combination of values in each row, with the additional... 9 KB (1,378 words) - 19:59, 13 March 2024 |
democracy, a paper candidate (also known as a no-hope candidate) is a candidate who stands for a political party in an electoral division where the party in question... 20 KB (2,528 words) - 00:22, 13 March 2024 |
 | The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay... 35 KB (3,419 words) - 04:10, 29 April 2024 |
The Perfect Candidate (Arabic: المرشحة المثالية, romanized: al-muraššaḥa al-mithāliyya) is a 2019 Saudi Arabian drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour... 5 KB (388 words) - 16:42, 12 November 2023 |
A parachute candidate, or carpetbagger in the United States, is a pejorative term for an election candidate who does not live in the area they are running... 56 KB (5,713 words) - 16:06, 24 April 2024 |
 | Candidate 1 (also known as C1 or Alpha Centauri Ab) is an unconfirmed exoplanet candidate directly imaged around Alpha Centauri A in February 2021. If... 6 KB (541 words) - 22:03, 2 December 2023 |
The Candidate for Goddess (Japanese: 女神候補生, Hepburn: Megami Kōhosei, lit. "Goddess Cadet") is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki... 30 KB (3,040 words) - 14:02, 21 August 2023 |
A private candidate, also known as an external candidate, in the UK examination system is a person who enters an examination but is not enrolled as a student... 2 KB (157 words) - 09:58, 20 December 2022 |
A candidate division, candidate phylum or candidate division-level is a lineage of prokaryotic organisms for which until recently no cultured representatives... 2 KB (168 words) - 06:49, 18 December 2023 |
 | The 2020–2021 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess double-round-robin tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2021... 38 KB (2,781 words) - 06:27, 16 April 2024 |
Crime Diaries: The Candidate (Spanish: Historia de un Crimen: Colosio) is a Spanish-language Mexican crime web television miniseries starring Martín Altomaro... 7 KB (300 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024 |