noncandidate

1. 1.

   someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office

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Other forms of noncandidate

plural

noncandidates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about noncandidate

What does noncandidate mean?

noncandidate means "someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office".

How many syllables are in noncandidate?

noncandidate has 4 syllables: non-can-di-date. The stress falls on "can".

Is noncandidate a common word?

noncandidate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.