Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A candidate on a joint ticket who is not the primary candidate on that ticket. 2 One of a pair of ships with coordinated, often reciprocal, sailing schedules.
WordNet
n. a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
Wikipedia
A running mate is a person running together with another person on a joint ticket during an election. The term is most often used in reference to the person in the subordinate position (such as the vice presidential candidate running with a presidential candidate) but can also properly be used when referring to both candidates, such as by saying Barack Obama and Joe Biden were running mates in 2008 and 2012.
The term is usually used in the United States, in reference to a prospective Vice President. In some states, candidates for lieutenant governor run on a ticket with gubernatorial candidates, and are also known as running mates.
A running mate is a person running on a joint ticket in an election.
Running Mate(s) or The Running Mate may also refer to:
- "Running Mates" (Family Guy), an episode
- "Running Mates" (The West Wing episode)
- Running Mates (film), a 2000 television film starring Tom Selleck and Laura Linney
- Running Mates (1992 film), a film starring Diane Keaton and Ed Harris
- The Running Mate (TV drama), an Irish miniseries, winner of a 2008 Irish Film & Television Award
- The Running Mate, a novel by Joe Klein
Usage examples of "running mate".
But what your line-running Mate Boscovich also wants, indeed openly enough for word of it to've reach'd even the tilth-stopp'd Ears of this country Philosopher, is a great number of Jesuit Observatories, flung as a Web, all over the World it seems, modeled somewhat, I'm told, upon the provisions made for observing the Transits of Venus.
The conservative running mate Mujazia had put up with only in order to be elected had been sworn in.
A purely symbolic candidacy, like the Libertarians or the Socialists, might pick someone like her as a running mate.
He would, he told the vast assemblage of indifferent Texans, be honored to serve his country as the running mate of the Honorable Horatio Francis Turnbull and work with him toward the greater prosperity of all Americans.
As with the running mate on the left, she repelled these attentions with her teeth.
We'll begin with the issue of nominating a new vice presidential running mate.
What he doesn't know is that in matters about the environment I'll continue to be disloyal, even if it means he chooses someone else as a running mate in the next election.
Since it'd been years since I'd had a running mate, the skipper of VF-95 had loaned me his XO, Commander Gator Cummings.
I wanted a running mate who understood and endorsed my positions exactly, so that in the event of my death in office my program would be carried out without deviation.