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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gubernatorial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gubernatorial election (=one to elect a governor)
▪ We are still waiting for the result of the gubernatorial election in New Jersey.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ The exile can't be doing wonders for her once-bright 2002 gubernatorial campaign.
candidate
▪ Wednesday night, he was scheduled to speak at a fund-raising event in Maryland for once-and-future gubernatorial candidate Ellen Sauerbrey.
▪ Pete Wilson supports the initiative, while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown has staked her election hopes on vehement opposition.
▪ None of the potential gubernatorial candidates has specifically addressed what are bound to be the significant costs of their anti- crime proposals.
▪ Hank looked like a gubernatorial candidate.
contest
▪ In the 36 gubernatorial contests the Democrats won 19, the Republicans 14 and independents two.
▪ Incumbents were re-elected in all gubernatorial contests except Iwate, Saga and Osaka.
▪ And yet, if Mr Brown does pitch his hat into the gubernatorial contest, he will start with a handicap.
election
▪ Nor did he, as the article stated, run against David Duke in the Louisiana gubernatorial election.
▪ Her blunt opposition to Symington completed a process of disassociation between the two that began during the last gubernatorial election campaign.
▪ Race factor in south Race was a prominent factor in two Southern gubernatorial elections.
▪ Unfortunately for Mr Wilson, that comeback will be tepid - and probably hardly noticeable until after next year's gubernatorial election.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bryan said gubernatorial incumbency can be both an advantage and liability when running for the Senate.
▪ Dole, in losing to George Bush in the 1988 primaries, recognized that gubernatorial endorsements are more important than senatorial ones.
▪ Her blunt opposition to Symington completed a process of disassociation between the two that began during the last gubernatorial election campaign.
▪ In California Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to win a major party gubernatorial nomination in the country's most populous state.
▪ Nor did he, as the article stated, run against David Duke in the Louisiana gubernatorial election.
▪ Still not enough to justify this desire to reach across the table and deliver a hard right to the gubernatorial chin.
▪ The Texas governorship was generally considered to be one of the most significant of the country's gubernatorial prizes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gubernatorial

Gubernatorial \Gu"ber*na*to`ri*al\, a. [L. gubernator governor. See Gabernate.] Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gubernatorial

1734, formed in American English from Latin gubernator (see govern) + -al (1). As an English word, gubernator was in use from 1520s but is rare.

Wiktionary
gubernatorial

a. Of or pertaining to a governor.

WordNet
gubernatorial

adj. relating to a governor; "gubernatorial election"

Usage examples of "gubernatorial".

He would return Dolabella to his usual condition and spend the rest of his term in Tarsus using up the gubernatorial stipend.

Virginia media firm run by Joe Trippi and Steve McMahon, which had made the commercials for his gubernatorial races and signed on early for the presidential campaign.

He wished he could have spent a quiet time, just talking, with that wise and pleasant-looking woman, Sally Devlin, the failed gubernatorial candidate from New Hampshire.

Republican gubernatorial primary in 1994, one candidate bragged in a TV ad that as attorney general he had helped kill Spenkelink.

Prime Osborn Convention Center only moments before the second gubernatorial debate.

Florida Cable News correspondent Blaine Crease, and welcome to the second Florida gubernatorial debate.

He had been selected moderator of the gubernatorial debates because FCN, the lowest-ranked network in the state, was the only one that would agree to telecast the traditional ratings-killer.

Party candidate Albert Fresco sat in his kitchen madder than a sumbitch, watching a TV program showing preparations for the gubernatorial debate in downtown Tampa.

During the gubernatorial campaign, Bush criticized the bullet train because of the immense risk to taxpayers.

Denning, an arch-conservative whose views on family values and welfare reform had made him a household name, was also the front-runner in the gubernatorial race.

All the polls show him to be the front-runner in the gubernatorial race.

It won 55 percent of the posts that were filled by gubernatorial and local elections in May 1990, which gave it control of everything from street sweeping to voter registration.

The place is going to be filled with politicians, hangers-on, and the man Paco plans to support in the next gubernatorial election.

Heck, ifWoodrow Weber could convince people he was gubernatorial material, she certainly could convince someone to give her a job.

Woodrow Weber well and add a little something to his gubernatorial war chest.