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multicandidate

multicandidate adjective: involving multiple candidates.

Adjective

multicandidate (not comparable)

  1. Involving multiple candidates
    • The positive tone was evidence of the complications of running in a multicandidate field where an attack on one candidate could have the effect of driving voters to a third.2007 December 27, Adam Nagourney, “Holiday Cheer Gives Way to Final Primary Push in Iowa”, in New York Times

Origin of multicandidate

From multi- + candidate.

Questions about multicandidate

What does multicandidate mean?
Multicandidate means involving multiple candidates.
What part of speech is multicandidate?
Multicandidate is an adjective.

Words near multicandidate in the dictionary

  1. multicams
  2. multicanaliculate
  3. multicancer
  4. multicand
  5. multicandidacy
  6. multicandidate
  7. multicands
  8. multicanonical
  9. multicanonicity
  10. multicapillary
  11. multicapitate

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