单词 | non-candidate |
释义 | non-candidaten. A person who is not a candidate; (U.S. Politics) a person who has not officially declared his or her candidacy in an election. ΚΠ 1898 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 6 55 (heading) Scholastic standing of candidates and non-candidates [for athletic teams]. 1967 Time 22 Sept. 22 (heading) The non-candidates. 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Jan. 16/5 Sen. Edward Kennedy, a steadfast noncandidate, was one of a dozen Democrats whose names have been entered in the..primary. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 9/1 Buchanan was even exempted from the vetting of his text that all other noncandidates submitted to. 1993 Toronto Life July 42/2 He is still..so comparatively young, still so decidedly a noncandidate for the golden handshake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1898 |
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