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NOMINATION
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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)
