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NOMINATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of officially naming a candidate

Example:

the Republican nomination for Governor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("nomination" is a kind of...):

appointment; assignment; designation; naming (the act of putting a person into a non-elective position)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)

nominate (create and charge with a task or function)

nominate (charge with a function; charge to be)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

Example:

the nomination was brief and to the point

Synonyms:

nominating address; nominating speech; nomination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nomination" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election

Example:

his nomination was hotly protested

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("nomination" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)

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