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running-mate

running-mate is the alternative form of running mate.

Meaning of running mate

Noun

running mate (plural running mates)

  1. A candidate on a joint ticket.
  2. (US) A candidate for the US vice-presidency.
    • My first decision after being assured of victory was to choose my running mate. I decided that I needed to compensate for my lack of experience in Washington, and seriously considered Senators John Glenn, Frank Church, Scoop Jackson, Ed Muskie, and Walter Mondale.2011, Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5
    Synonyms:
    ticketmate
  3. One of a pair of ships with coordinated, often reciprocal, sailing schedules.
  4. One of a pair of horses running the same race for the same stable or owner.

Forms of running-mate

pluralrunning-mates

Origin of running-mate

From running + -mate.

Questions about running-mate

What is running-mate the alternative form of?
Running-mate is the alternative form of running mate.

Words near running-mate in the dictionary

  1. running wild
  2. running with
  3. running with scissors
  4. running with the hare and hunting with the hounds
  5. running Ws
  6. running-mate
  7. running-mates
  8. running-shoe
  9. running-shoes
  10. runningback
  11. runningbacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running-mate (page history and authors); running mate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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