precandidature
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pre- + candidature.
Adjective
[edit]precandidature (not comparable)
- Before candidature.
- 1976, Robert S. Holzman, Adapt Or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A., page 149:
- And inasmuch as he had been an outstandingly successful lawyer at the time of his nomination, a substantial gift in the pattern of his precandidature habit did not seem to be suspicion-breeding.