Nominee
[nɒmɪ'niː] or [,nɑmɪ'ni]
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Definition
n. one who is nominated by another: one on whose life an annuity or lease depends: one to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders his interest.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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Examples
- That statement was issued at the beginning of a campaign in which Woodrow Wilson was the nominee of a party that has always been closely associated with the liquor interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Indian representative was, of course, sure to be merely a British nominee; the other four would be colonial politicians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It wants to have a House of Commons which is not weighted with nominees of the landed class, but with representatives of the other interests. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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