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The act of naming a candidate
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nomination
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Word definitions for nomination in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE democratic ▪ Babbitt, 54, a former Governor of Arizona, was an unsuccessful candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination . ▪ The first came as Governor Clinton struggled to gain the Democratic nomination ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "act of mentioning by name," from Middle French nomination (14c.), and directly from Latin nominationem (nominative nominatio ) "a naming, designation," from nominare "to name" (see nominate (v.)). Meaning "fact of being proposed as a candidate" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act or instance of nominate. 2 A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nomination \Nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. nominatio: cf. F. nomination.] The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated; as, to win the nomination. The nomination of persons ...
Usage examples of nomination.
He would be officially nominated for the Ambassadorship by Ra-ghoratrei, but the nomination must be approved by the Federation Council.
It is therefore also through nomination that discourse is articulated upon knowledge.
It would avoid the inconvenience of securing advance nominations from absent delegates, and the impracticality of associating them with the assembled electors in the subsequent ballots that are often required to meet the exigencies of majority vote.
Rachel received a nomination of the Academy of Cinematographic Sciences by his interpretation.
State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.
This party, finding it impossible to influence the nomination of both members, contented itself with naming one, it being the mutual condition, in return for favouring the Government candidate, that the Government party should not oppose the choice of the liberals.
I could not have prepared these chapters, so without the occasion furnished by the Hyde Foundation and the nomination made by the President of Harvard University to the exchange lectureship, I should not have undertaken this delightful filial task.
All in attendance agreed to attempt to filibuster the nomination of Miguel Estrada, if they have the votes to defeat cloture.
Senate rules forbid the minority party from using the filibuster in cases of judicial nominations.
El Jefe, still only acting chief until City Council approved his nomination, stood there telling everyone to be careful, to avoid unnecessarily harsh procedures, to use courtesy whenever possible.
Though the beginning of this era is often demarcated by the nomination of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship in 1953, its gradual evolution actually began decades earlier with the nomination of Louis Brandeis as an associate justice in 1916.
Hopefully, Delmot opened the nomination slip that was handed to him, as though wishing it contained a name like Orvill, Laverock, or Secane.
The Baltimore convention passed a set of resolutions, among other things, approving these vetoes, and General Cass declares, in his letter accepting the nomination, that he has carefully read these resolutions, and that he adheres to them as firmly as he approves them cordially.
Calhoun Ballenger won the Democratic nomination away from Senator Merrill in a huge upset, and the mayor lost his job in a special election won by former mayor Eddie Cane.
The authority of the senate, in the nomination of the consuls, was exercised with such independent freedom, that no regard was paid to an irregular request of the emperor in favor of his brother Florianus.