a person who is not successful, especially in a competition or an election or when compared with other people:
A year ago he was just an also-ran for the Democratic nomination.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for also-ran is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is also-ran a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, also-ran is tagged as noun.
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