nominateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈnɒm.ɪ.neɪt/us/ˈnɑː.mə.neɪt/nominate verb [ T ] (SUGGEST)
C1 to officially suggest someone for an election, job, position, or honour:
He's been nominated by the Green Party as their candidate in the next election.
Would you like to nominate anyone for/as director?
C1 to say officially that a film, song, programme, etc. will be included in a competition for a prize:
The film was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Elections
- absentee ballot
- absentee vote
- absolute majority
- abstain
- abstention
- aye
- first-past-the-post
- franchise
- general election
- gerrymandering
- go to the country idiom
- landslide
- rigging
- running mate
- safe
- scrutineer
- secret ballot
- show of hands
- stump
- vote of confidence
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Suggestions & proposals
nominate verb [ T ] (CHOOSE)
to officially choose someone for a job or to do something:
She was nominated as the delegation's official interpreter.
[ + to infinitive ] President Yeltsin nominated acting prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko to head the government.
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Applying for a job
- anoint
- applicant
- appoint
- appointed
- appointee
- appointment
- engage
- handpicked
- headhunt
- hiring
- intake
- job
- job centre
- set sb up
- step
- step into sth
- subcontract
- take sb on
- take sth on
- tender
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