candidate
Example Sentences
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Chip Wilson said Monday that he had nominated three director candidates to the board as Lululemon searches for a new chief executive, confirming an earlier report by The Wall Street Journal.
"All candidates are assessed to the same standard and the result of their test is entirely dependent on their performance on the day."
From BBC
When the research team began exploring the genetics of attention, Homer1 was not an obvious candidate.
From Science Daily
Ideal candidates have excellent credit, a big budget and the discipline to pay off balances each month, consultants say.
The defence sector's historic over-reliance on ex-military people reduces the pool of possible candidates, and may also be off-putting to younger recruits.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
