slate
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6.1
- noun
- /sleɪt/
:
lista de candidatos
- The optimism is I've never seen a better slate of candidates.
- a slate of candidates
- a party slate
- competing slates
And each year people would vote on a slate of beauty queen contestants.
- And each year people would vote on a slate of beauty queen contestants.
- It's been used in multiple elections so that you have that alternate slate on standby.
- He elected on the same slate.
Examples
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The committee presented a diverse slate of candidates for the upcoming election.
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The winner of this mass-based process would constitute that party's slate of nominees.
Academic text (2003) -
Women of color got together and ran a slate.
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If you want to run your own slate of candidates, you can.
Academic text (1996) -
The ballot identified only the party of each slate but did not list the names of the individual candidates.
Academic text (1993) -
And each year people would vote on a slate of beauty queen contestants.
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The committee chairman shall report the slate to the PSA board via the Divisions Vice President.
Academic text (2004) -
During the meeting, they discussed the slate of nominees proposed by the party leadership.
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She was excited about the slate of new candidates running for office this year.
Synonyms
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5.3
A list of candidates from a party for several public offices
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A thin stick of soft stone that people use to write on a slate in old classrooms
A group of people who regularly put money into a shared fund and get it before Christmas
Surface Forms
Etymology
A slate meaning a list of candidates comes from the old habit of writing names on a slate tablet, so a party's 'slate' is simply the list written down.