"competitive candidate" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is looking for a job and has good qualifications and experiences that make them stand out from other applicants. For example, "I'm confident that I am a competitive candidate for the position, as I have ten years of experience in the field."
If you're going to evaluate candidates by their merits and their capabilities, according to the rules, I think I'm a very competitive candidate.
Some feared that Iowa, which holds such a crucial role in the nomination process, could be too extreme to pick a competitive candidate.
Chris Lehane, a senior strategist, said that come March 2, the biggest round of primaries this year, "we want to be still standing as a very competitive candidate".
"He's now won two major ballot campaigns in California, and has an incredibly strong relationship with both labor and environmentalists, in a state where it costs fifty million dollars to be a competitive candidate," Lehane said.
The Front National has risen dramatically in popularity since Mr Le Pen's daughter took over, with polls showing Ms Le Pen as a competitive candidate for the President of the Republic.
The official line on the Modernising Medical Careers (www.mmc.nhs.uk) is that no one should be left in a dead-end situation but it does warn that "junior doctors who persist in seeking a career in a highly competitive speciality, where they are not the most competitive candidate, will have to rethink their career aspirations".
"That makes them less competitive candidates for jobs after graduation".
"They should make no effort, except under extraordinary circumstances, to field competitive candidates.
It is unusual for each party to have only two competitive candidates at the time of the Iowa caucuses.
She added: "At the end of the day all the competitive candidates will pretty much have similar expenditure rates".
Competitive candidates will wear Under Armour shirts as regular shirts, have a demonstrated commitment to barefoot running, and not know their own credit scores.
