nomination : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nomination	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nomination
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nomination n the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor" 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" 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" Synonym(s): nominating speech, nominating address, nomination
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nomination \Nom`ina"tion\, n. [L. nominatio: cf. F. nomination.] 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. The nomination* of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself. --Clarendon. 2. The denomination, or name. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson.