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candidatures

candidatures is the plural of candidature.

Meaning of candidature

Noun

candidature (countable and uncountable, plural candidatures)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) The condition of becoming a candidate; candidateship.
    • THE state of things in regard to my candidature, in which I know that you are supremely interested, is this, as far as can be as yet conjectured. The only person actually canvassing is P. Sulpicius Galba.1920, Cicero, translated by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, The Letters of Cicero: The Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order, volume 1 (hardcover), London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., pages 12-13

Questions about candidatures

What is candidatures the plural of?
Candidatures is the plural of candidature.

Words near candidatures in the dictionary

  1. candidates
  2. candidateship
  3. candidateships
  4. candidating
  5. candidature
  6. candidatures
  7. Candide
  8. candidemia
  9. candidemias
  10. candidemic
  11. candider

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