What does nominee mean?

Definitions for nominee
ˌnɒm əˈninom·i·nee

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. campaigner, candidate, nomineenoun

    a politician who is running for public office

GCIDE

  1. Nomineenoun

    A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office.

Wiktionary

  1. nomineenoun

    A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

ChatGPT

  1. nominee

    A nominee is a person who is proposed or formally entered as a candidate for an office, position, award, or honor. They are selected by a group or individual as their choice for this particular role or recognition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nomineenoun

    a person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office

  2. Etymology: [See Nominate, and -ee.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Nominee

    nom-in-ē′, n. one who is nominated by another: one on whose life an annuity or lease depends: one to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders his interest.

Editors Contribution

  1. nominee

    A person proposed to be elected.

    The nominee was accepted and decided to run for election.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 10, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nominee in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nominee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of nominee in a Sentence

  1. Xavier Becerra:

    I'm not worried. I see what Clinton has done. She's released 55,000 pages of emails. She's released her tax returns, she's always been willing to talk. The story that is missing is what we don't know about (presumptive GOP presidential nominee) Donald Trump.

  2. Jeb Bush:

    For the sake of our party and country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena, or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee and reverse President Obama’s failed policies, the only path that remains to nominate a Republican rather than Donald Trump is to have an open convention.

  3. Mitch McConnell:

    So what I've said about the presidential race -- and this is as far as I'm going to go so I'll save your time peppering me with questions about the presidential race -- we'd like to have a nominee who can carry purple states.

  4. Keith Ellison:

    If you do not have enough support, we should not change the rules for you, we should change the nominee.

  5. Mitt Romney:

    If we Republicans were to choose Donald Trump as our nominee, I believe that the prospects for a safe and prosperous future would be greatly diminished — and I’m convinced Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton.

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