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candidacy

[ kan-di-duh-see ]

noun

  1. the fact or state of running for office or of seeking a position, title, degree, etc.:

    She has announced her candidacy for the 51st seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.



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  • pre·can·di·da·cy noun

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A declaration of candidacy signed by Cuomo was in the trunk of his car.

And it might be easiest of all imagining him “exploring” a candidacy for a while and then deciding the hell with it.

Rubio has his own troubles with immigration, but people close to him said he still may have a path even with a Bush candidacy.

The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney.

When it becomes clear that nobody else will challenge Lindbergh in the next election, Winchell announces his own candidacy.

Of course this would be in a measure opening a door to blackmailers, and make the candidacy extremely dangerous.

He did not, as we have seen, follow the example of Clay, who persistently favored his own candidacy.

Ferdinando de Medici, then a cardinal, had just failed in his candidacy for the pontificate (outwitted by that fox Montalto).

Even before the President wrote this letter, Mr. Chase's candidacy had passed out of sight.

She urged the candidacy of Mrs. Catt, although her highest ambition had always been to succeed her beloved Aunt Susan.

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