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nomination

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nom·i·na·tion  (nm-nshn)
n.
1. The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
2. The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
3. The state of being nominated.
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Noun1.nominationnomination - the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor"
appointment, designation, naming, assignment - the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
2.nomination - 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"
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
3.nomination - 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"
political science, politics, government - the study of government of states and other political units
oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory"

nomination
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nomination [nɔmɪˈneɪʃən] npropuesta; nombramiento
nomination [nɔmɪˈneɪʃən] nominate nnomination f
nomination [nɔmɪˈneɪʃən] nominate nNominierung f (= appointment); Ernennung f
nomination [nɔmɪˈneɪʃən] nnomina; candidatura

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I think he'll turn him round: I think the nomination may be staved off.
The man's career was ended; and on the day when the nomination of the new peer was announced, the man ended with it.
They might even entertain a preference to some other person, at the very moment they were assenting to the one proposed, because there might be no positive ground of opposition to him; and they could not be sure, if they withheld their assent, that the subsequent nomination would fall upon their own favorite, or upon any other person in their estimation more meritorious than the one rejected.
 
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