applicant vs job candidate

applicant and job candidate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
applicant	Yes	No	No	No
job candidate	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, job candidate is a hyponym of applicant; that is, job candidate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than applicant:

applicant: a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
job candidate: an applicant who is being considered for a job

Other hyponyms of applicant include aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee, bidder, claimant, material, petitioner, requester, suppliant, supplicant, possible, probable, submitter.

applicant (noun)	job candidate (noun)
a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission	an applicant who is being considered for a job

applicant vs job candidate

applicant and job candidate both are nouns.

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