Nomination

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nomination \Nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. nominatio: cf. F.
     nomination.]
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     1. The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person
        as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the
        state of being nominated; as, to win the nomination.


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              The nomination of persons to places being . . . a
              flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.
                                                    --Clarendon.
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     2. The denomination, or name. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nomination
       n 1: the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican
            nomination for Governor"
       2: 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"
       3: an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the
          name of a candidate to run for election; "the nomination
          was brief and to the point" [syn: {nominating speech}, {nominating
          address}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "nomination":
     acceptance speech, apostolic orders, appointment, assignment,
     calling, canonization, caucus nomination, conferment, consecration,
     designation, direct nomination, election, holy orders, induction,
     installation, institution, investiture, major orders, minor orders,
     naming, ordainment, orders, ordination, petition nomination,
     posting, preferment, presentation, proposal, reading in, selection,
     tabbing, transferral
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  NOMINATION, This word has several significations. 1. An appointment; as, I 
  nominate A B, executor of this my last will. 2. A proposition; the word 
  nominate is used in this sense in the constitution of the United States, 
  art. 2, s. 2, the president "shall nominate, and by and with the consent of 
  the senate, shall appoint ambassadors," &c.