nomination

Noun
  1. The act of officially naming a candidate (synset 100164973)
    "the Republican nomination for Governor"
    is a type of: appointment, assignment, designation, naming - the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
  2. The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election (synset 113949568)
    "there was keen competition for the nomination"; "his nomination was hotly protested"
    is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
  3. An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election (synset 107255585)
    "the nomination was brief and to the point"
    referred to in: government, political science, politics - the study of government of states and other political units
    is a type of: oratory - addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
    same as: nominating address, nominating speech

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