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NOMINATING SPEECH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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 ("nominating speech" 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)

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