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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nominee
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 on Mr Bush's cabinet nominees and his legislative agenda.
▪ Previous hearings have also been bitter, but those concerning cabinet nominees have concentrated on personal matters.
democratic
▪ Mr Bush's indiscretion had become a vehicle for attacking the Democratic presidential nominee.
▪ U2 were visited in Chicago by Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
▪ The convention could endorse the Republican or Democratic presidential nominee or come up with its own.
▪ The Democratic nominee was more specific on the issue of illegal immigration.
good
▪ Babe G A best picture Oscar nominee.
judicial
▪ The president's judicial and other nominees ought to be thoroughly vetted.
▪ Dole aides believe they can paint the president as soft on crime by hammering his judicial nominees.
likely
▪ Bob Dole, the likely Republican nominee.
possible
▪ He is mentioned as a possible vice-presidential nominee for 1996.
presidential
▪ Any senator can hold up a vote on a presidential nominee without explaining why or even divulging the hold publicly.
▪ Run-off elections to decide finally on the presidential nominees, originally planned for Oct. 3, were rescheduled to Oct. 10.
▪ Bob Dole, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
presumptive
▪ Normally, they punish the presumptive nominee in the late primaries.
▪ Bob Dole, whose string of 18 primary victories has made him the presumptive party nominee.
▪ Dole himself did not expect to lay claim to the title of presumptive nominee until after the March 26 primary in California.
▪ But it also showed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee trailing Clinton among women voters 34 percent to 41 percent.
▪ Bob Dole, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
republican
▪ This leaves one important question: How does the Republican nominee get more of the black and minority vote?
▪ Bob Dole, the expected Republican presidential nominee, came out against the proposition Tuesday.
▪ The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
▪ Clinton looks better than he will as soon as the Republican nominee becomes apparent.
▪ Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee presumptive, quickly signed on as a sponsor.
supreme
▪ Congress no longer can choose Supreme Court nominees -- a cozy practice that helped shield legislators from judicial scrutiny.
vice
▪ First, he lost as the vice presidential nominee on the 1976 Ford / Dole ticket.
▪ Some delegates have indicated they will oppose a vice presidential nominee who is not solidly against abortion.
▪ A third of the delegates were not sure about their preference for a vice presidential nominee or declined to answer the question.
▪ Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp is scheduled to speak Saturday.
■ NOUN
bob
▪ A new poll makes drought-stricken Texas look like an oasis for the support-thirsty presidential campaign of presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.
oscar
▪ Babe G A best picture Oscar nominee.
party
▪ Bob Dole, whose string of 18 primary victories has made him the presumptive party nominee.
▪ Democratic Party nominees who have lost the White House will not be attending the Democratic convention.
▪ The Reform Party nominee will be announced Aug. 18.
▪ If Perot runs for president again as the Reform Party nominee, he may find rough sledding in Texas.
▪ Whether Reform Party nominee Perot will be included also remains a point of contention.
■ VERB
become
▪ Dame Janet Fookes, who could become the Tory nominee for the first woman Speaker.
▪ No matter who becomes the nominee, he will face an uphill climb in the predominantly Republican district north of Atlanta.
choose
▪ Q.. What is your role now that the party has chosen Dole as its nominee?
▪ Congress no longer can choose Supreme Court nominees -- a cozy practice that helped shield legislators from judicial scrutiny.
▪ But they expected the rank and file to act more out of pragmatism than principle when choosing a nominee.
▪ In the early years of the republic, the congressional leaders of each party chose their presidential nominees in closed caucuses.
expect
▪ Bob Dole, the expected Republican presidential nominee, came out against the proposition Tuesday.
hold
▪ If the shares are held under a nominee name, the client will not get certificates at all.
▪ Only two shares were issued to the applicant and Miss Bird, which they held as nominees.
pick
▪ After the convention, party members will vote by mail and electronically to pick the nominee.
select
▪ For the first time, Verney laid out how the Reform Party will select its presidential nominee.
▪ Perot launched his new party last autumn, with the goal of having the party select a nominee for president in 1996.
▪ It was the last time the party took more than a single ballot to select its presidential nominee.
support
▪ Y., who has publicly supported the nominee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Speakers included former presidential nominee Bob Dole.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As for Best Supporting Actor, the nominees are too numerous to list.
▪ Even then, it takes an extraordinary amount of opposition to sink a nominee.
▪ In their day, presidential nominees were chosen by members of Congress meeting in caucus.
▪ The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
▪ Whomever he selects, Dole will reveal as much about himself as he does about vice his presidential nominee.
▪ You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nominee

Nominee \Nom`i*nee"\, n. [See Nominate, and -ee.] A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nominee

1660s, "person named for something; see nominate + -ee. Sense of "person named as a candidate" is attested from 1680s.

Wiktionary
nominee

n. 1 A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. 2 A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.

WordNet
nominee

n. a politician who is running for public office [syn: campaigner, candidate]

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.

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.