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单词 to make the race
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to make the race
c. North American Politics. An electoral contest for public office. to make the race: to run for public office; to win an election.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > electoral contest
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1824 Cincinnati Lit. Gaz. 7 July 41/1 (title) The lovers' political race, or, a Kentucky election.
1855 I. C. Pray Mem. J. G. Bennett 288 He had been the first to start many of them upon the ground for a successful political race.
1881 H. W. Pierson In Brush 132 To ‘make the race’ was to secure an election.
1903 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Sept. 1 Mr. Cutting ran up stairs to tell Dr. Gould..that Mr. Gront would make the race.
1952 B. P. Thomas Abraham Lincoln viii. 154 Lincoln..resigned from the Legislature in order to be eligible for the Senate race.
2006 Newsweek 20 Nov. 59 In Washington, the political parties will be sharpening their agendas for the wide-open '08 presidential race.
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