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RUNNING MATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does running mate mean?
• RUNNING MATE (noun)
The noun RUNNING MATE has 1 sense:
1. a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
Familiarity information: RUNNING MATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("running mate" is a kind of...):
campaigner; candidate; nominee (a politician who is running for public office)
Context examples
As with the running mate on the left, she repelled these attentions with her teeth; but when both bestowed their attentions at the same time she was roughly jostled, being compelled, with quick snaps to either side, to drive both lovers away and at the same time to maintain her forward leap with the pack and see the way of her feet before her.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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