Nomination
[nɒmɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,nɑmɪ'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of officially naming a candidate; 'the Republican nomination for Governor'.
(noun.) the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election; 'there was keen competition for the nomination'; 'his nomination was hotly protested'.
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.
(n.) The denomination, or name.
Typed by Judy
Examples
- We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I think he'll turn him round: I think the nomination may be staved off. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then, dinner is had at the Hotel with the legal gentleman, and then there are in due succession, nomination, and declaration. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Four years later General Scott received the nomination but was badly beaten, and the party nominating him died with his defeat. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Upton had already been named as such, but the appointment had to be confirmed by the Senate on the nomination of the President. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- However, things will come all right at the nomination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Is he really going to be put in nomination, though? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But he thinks Brooke would come off badly at a nomination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He says so himself, virtually, in his answer to the notice of his nomination to the Confederate presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- My nomination had been sent to the Senate on the 1st of March and confirmed the next day (the 2d). Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was necessary to follow up our nomination, and to persuade Raymond to present himself to the electors on the following evening. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hamer, one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced, was our member of Congress at the time, and had the right of nomination. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the truth is that we overestimate enormously the importance of nominations, campaigns, and office-holding. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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