candidature

English

Etymology

From French candidature, equivalent to candidate +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkændɪdət͡ʃʊɚ/, /ˈkændɪdət͡ʃɚ/, /ˈkændɪdətjʊɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

candidature (countable and uncountable, plural candidatures)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) The condition of becoming a candidate; candidateship.
   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• precandidature

Related terms

• candidacy

Translations

the condition of becoming a candidate

• Armenian: թեկնածություն (hy) (tʻeknacutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: namizədlik
• Czech: kandidatura f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: kandidatuur (nl) f
• Estonian: kandidatuur
• Finnish: ehdokkuus (fi), kandidaattius
• French: candidature (fr) f
• Georgian: კანდიდატურა (ḳandidaṭura)
• German: Kandidatur (de) f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: candidatura (it) f
• Latvian: kandidatūra f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: kaiwhakaurutanga
• Norman: candidatuthe f (Jersey)
• Occitan: candidatura (oc) f
• Polish: kandydatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: candidatura (pt) f
• Russian: кандидату́ра (ru) f (kandidatúra)
• Slovak: kandidatúra f
• Spanish: candidatura (es) f

French

Etymology

From candidat +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

candidature f (plural candidatures)

1. application; candidacy

   poser sa candidature ― to apply

   retenir la candidature de quelqu'un ― to shortlist someone for a post

   formulaire de candidature ― application form

   une candidature spontanée ― a speculative application

   un appel à candidatures ― a call for applications

Further reading

• “candidature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan.di.daˈtu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: can‧di‧da‧tù‧re

Noun

candidature f pl

1. plural of candidatura