NOMINATION • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Nomination

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/nˌɑmənˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Nomination

noun

The act of officially naming a candidate.

The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election. "His nomination was hotly protested"

An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election. Synonyms: nominating address, nominating speech.

See more definitions of Nomination...

See images of 'Nomination'

Etymology of 'Nomination'

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Nomination" Quotes from Famous Books

... took their turn to quit it. The wan face of my dear old friend flushed up when he saw me, and his hand shook in mine, "I have found a home, Arthur," said he. "My good friend Lord H., who is a Cistercian like ourselves, and has just been appointed a governor, gave me his first nomination. Don't be agitated, Arthur, my boy; I am very happy. I have good quarters, good food, good light and fire, and good friends. Why, sir, I am as happy ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... government extended to those who had borne part in his glorious exploits at sea, and Lieutenant Embleton was put on half-pay after the action of the Imperieuse against the French fleet, and found himself without any prospect of future employment, and without even a chance of obtaining a nomination for his son to a midshipman's berth. The blow was at first a very keen one, but it was less bitterly felt after the conclusion of peace and the great reduction of the navy, as his fate was only that of thousands of other officers; and he had now come to feel that ...

— With Cochrane the Dauntless • George Alfred Henty

... state: President Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK (since 14 October 1981) head of government: Prime Minister Kamal Ahmed El-GANZOURI (since 4 January 1996) cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president elections : president nominated by the People's Assembly for a six-year term, the nomination must then be validated by a national, popular referendum; national referendum last held 4 October 1993 (next to be held NA October 1999); prime minister appointed by the president election results: national referendum ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... being no other nomination—for they all knew that it would give the game away to have a contest—the Chairman put Mr Grinder's proposal to the meeting and declared ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... preserved. The outward appearance of the party organization, the external forms which catch the popular eye, must not reveal too clearly the secret methods and cunningly devised arrangements by which an effective minority control is maintained over the nomination of candidates and the framing of party platforms. The test of fitness for office is not fidelity to the rank and file of the people who vote the party ticket, but subserviency to those interests which dominate the party ...

— The Spirit of American Government - A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And - Relation To Democracy • J. Allen Smith

More quotes...