write-in candidate

1. 1.

   a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters

   Synonymswrite-in

   Broadercampaigner

Questions about write-in candidate

What does write-in candidate mean?

write-in candidate means "a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters".

What is another word for write-in candidate?

Close synonyms include write-in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is write-in candidate a common word?

write-in candidate 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.