precandidate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]precandidate (plural precandidates)
- A person approved as a possible candidate.
- 2008 March 8, The Associated Press, “Hall of Famer in Mayor’s Race”, in New York Times[1]:
- Arguello was approved as a precandidate for the November elections at a meeting of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, according to Daysi Torrez, a journalist who was nominated to run for deputy mayor.