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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE cabinet ▪ And it is partly because of the way in which cabinet nominees are approved. ▪ Although several Cabinet nominees already have cleared the Senate, Sen. ▪ It also cleared the way for the Senate to take action ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "person named for something; see nominate + -ee . Sense of "person named as a candidate" is attested from 1680s.

Usage examples of nominee.

Whitman was asked whether Bush should have an abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court, she boasted that as governor of New Jersey she had abjured litmus tests for her judicial nominees.

This provoked hilarity among the onlookers, shaming to her and her nominee Albumarak, and quickly reproved by Doyenne Greetch, who reminded those in range of the loudeners of the antiquity of this custom.

Democrats maintained their filibuster on these ten fine jurists, conservatives argued, there would be nothing to prevent them from having their way with future Supreme Court nominees.

But the Senate Democrats still had an arrow left in their quiver-the unconstitutional and unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees.

By using a filibuster, or even threatening to invoke the filibuster procedure against a judicial nominee, a small group of senators can prevent a vote for confirmation from ever taking place.

Yull exuding the pheromones appropriate to a high official, and Omber playing the role of her nominee as Albumarak had taught her, they arrived at the laboratory unchallenged, along a high branchway either side of which the boughs were festooned with labeled experimental circuitry.

You are the nominee in whose name the Pimlico and Westminster Land Company is held!

Macaulay, a nominee of Lord Lansdowne for the borough of Calne, in favour of the bill, elicited much applause.

Down the table sat our nominees, the two brokerage men, a banker and an accountant.

The Pensacola Address of the Populist nominees on September 17, 1892, which served as a joint letter of acceptance, was evidently issued at that place and time partly for the purpose of influencing such voters as might be won over by emphasizing the unquestioned economic distress of most Southern farmers.

Now it was for these delegates to decide whether they would put their organization behind the Democratic nominee with a substantial prospect of victory, or preserve intact the identity of the Populist party, split the silver vote, and deliver over the election to a gold Republican.

Whitman about judicial nominees would be like asking Bill Clinton for marital advice.

If Whitman had chosen judicial nominees by randomly pointing to names in a telephone book, New Jersey would have been better served.

A long public life, treading a delicate path of nonaction between power groups who wanted their own nominee in Government House, made him wary of all sudden decisions.