governor's race
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈɡʌvərnərz reɪs/
- US
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elección para gobernador
- OK, then how about the NC governor's race this election?
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Meanwhile, Democrat Maggie Hassan won the state's governor's race against Republican challenger Ovide Lamontagne.
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The Virginia governor's race will help establish whether the commonwealth has become a truly blue state.
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I personally think folks should be more focused on the governor's race.
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Hardly a mandate, especially with a very close governor's race.
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But in the Washington state governor's race, it's a whole different ballgame.
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Bob McDonnell, a Republican, won the governor's race in 2009, and the party picked up three House seats in 2010.
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His name is Tom Foley, and he lost the 2010 governor's race in Connecticut by less than a single percentage point.
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Republicans last won a governor's race in the state in 1980, when John Spellman was elected.
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In 2010, Ms. Stein got 1.43 percent of the vote in the Massachusetts governor's race.
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In the upcoming election, several candidates are campaigning hard for the governor's race in Texas.
Synonyms
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An organized effort to be elected governor of a state
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Surface Forms
Morphology
governor's + race
The phrase is fully compositional: 'governor's' indicates the office/person and 'race' denotes a contest, so together they naturally mean a contest to become governor. The use of 'race' for an electoral competition is a common, cross-linguistic metaphor, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Governor's race uses the image of a running race: candidates are like runners trying to reach the finish line first to win the job of governor. So, the phrase means 'an election contest to become governor'.