Synonyms for Candidates:

• n.

  •petitioners (noun)
  • bidders,
  • communicants,
  • competitors,
  • aspirants,
  • suitors,
  • seekers,
  • applicants,
  • claimants,
  • petitioners,
  • hopefuls.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • field,
  • participant,
  • people.
  •Other relevant words:
  • airfield,
  • area,
  • arena,
  • athletic field,
  • bailiwick,
  • battlefield,
  • battleground,
  • campaigner,
  • challenger,
  • champaign,
  • citizenry,
  • competitor,
  • contender,
  • contention,
  • contest,
  • discipline,
  • domain,
  • field of battle,
  • field of force,
  • field of operation,
  • field of study,
  • field of view,
  • flying field,
  • force field,
  • hoi polloi,
  • landing field,
  • line of business,
  • mass,
  • masses,
  • multitude,
  • nominee,
  • orbit,
  • plain,
  • player,
  • playing area,
  • playing field,
  • prospect,
  • rival,
  • rivalry,
  • sphere,
  • study,
  • subject,
  • subject area,
  • subject field,
  • theater,
  • theatre,
  • field of honor,
  • field of operations,
  • theater of operations,
  • theatre of operations,
  • the great unwashed.

Paraphrases for Candidates:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    candidate.
  • Proper noun, plural
    nominees.
  • Proper noun, singular
    nominee, nominees.
  • Noun, plural
    nominees.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, plural
    Persons.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Persons.
  • Noun, plural
    elections, objects, Persons.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    contenders, winners, members.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    prospective, Acceding, would-be.
  • Proper noun, plural
    citizens, chairholders, personnes, states, individuals, passengers, humans, people, Entries, Respondents, Les.
  • Proper noun, singular
    recipients, participating, attendance, Entries, involved, panellists, Respondents, responsibilities, december, Them, plan, The, Les, Roles, workshop.
  • Noun, plural
    incumbents, elected, representatives, Recommendations, campaigns, apprentices, co-chairpersons, detainees, assistance, seats, citizens, retrainees, factions, alternates, partners, Selections, appointment, Appointments, attributes, interns, agents, designated, heading, ballots, graduates, recruitment, debates, Criteria, electors, constituents, deliberations, claimants, polls, Examined, registrants, Negotiations, voters, commissioners, recruits, bids, Investigators, Internships, prizewinners, decisions, Personalities, years, Stations, competitors, residents, leaders, Evaluations, laureates, tenderers, deductions, notes, proceedings, Presenting, Capacities, names, Patients, Associations, bidders, Clients, choices, contractors, principles, inhabitants, authorities, directory, cases, victims, competitions, asylum-seekers, personnes, Talents, audiences, postulates, appellant, announcements, Parties, actors, witnesses, servants, Researchers, requirements, additives, prize-winners, assessment, rivals, skilled, Capabilities, papers, complainants, pledges, enrolled, professionals, states, Scholarships, Consultants, tenders, players, Students, licensees, topics, workers, suppliers, positions, honourees, owners, Organizations, item, items, Entities, chairs, demands, EXAMS, discussions, presented, assumptions, women, conscripts, awardees, Operators, officials, PROSPECTS, individuals, subscribers, seekers, Awarded, Aspirations, hopefuls, institutions, others, Expenditures, men, grades, returns, Voices, beings, envisages, NATIONALS, officers, judges, Referrals, processes, seminars, passengers, equal, projects, prisoners, Populations, sudanese, tenets, targets, contacts, requested, stakeholders, offers, Fellowships, Grants, experts, Characters, holders, scholars, Qualities, rosters, visitors, fellows, plans, deaths, experiences, lists, obligations, numbers, marking, runners, contributions, guys, police, humans, Replies, answers, filters, peoples, proposals, employees, levels, Areas, personnel, jurors, awards, users, Ones, Adults, sudan, subjects, skills, mrs, Abilities, Hires, Pupils, places, posts, responses, funds, claims, expenses, bonds, marks, examples, knowledge, Lives, Resources, february, have, circles, CVS, spaces, requests, Forms, Programs, people, possible, POPS, CCS, figures, recipients, Entries, panellists, Respondents.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    standing, waiting, returning, Aiming, seeking, wishing, Applying, running, participating, Acceding.
  • Verb, past participle
    considered, nominated.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    applies.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    applicants, applicant.
  • Proper noun, plural
    applicants, candidatures.
  • Proper noun, singular
    attendees, applicants, applicant, contestant, contestants, candidature, candidatures, accession, candidacy, nominated.
  • Noun, plural
    candidacies, CADETS, appointees, entrants, VOTES, trainees, contests, potentials, jobs, qualifications, interviewees, examinations, Beneficiaries, aspirants, takers, Interviews, picks, proponents, examinees, Tests, submissions, Countries, attendees, applicants, contestants, candidatures.
  • Adverb
    applicants.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    applicants, candidatures.

Candidates Sentence Examples:

• If any one doubts the power of the teachers as a body to mould the internal arrangements and details of the schools, the school records of more than one city will furnish him with cases where the teachers have forced upon the committee and the schools, measures by them judged necessary, text - books of which they approved, and their candidates for vacant places, till their power and influence will appear no longer doubtful.

• The election of a Chaplain was then taken up and several candidates nominated for the office.