Nominee is an English word with synonyms like candidate or politician. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
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Nominee meaning
- 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.
- A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
- A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.
Synonyms of Nominee
Using Nominee
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator. | A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.
- Useful related words include: campaigner, candidate, politician, politico.
- In the example corpus, nominee often appears in combinations such as: nominee for, the nominee, presidential nominee.
Example sentences (20)
The technical committee will be comprised of one nominee from Prismo, one nominee from Vizsla and one nominee mutually acceptable by both parties.
To compensate for a duly elected Republican Senate acting on its prerogatives to block one Supreme Court nominee (Obama nominee Merrick Garland) and potentially confirm another (Trump’s nominee to fill the RBG seat).
Cameron is the Republican nominee for governor in November’s election running against the Democratic nominee, Beshear.
The gubernatorial race included a heated Democratic primary with current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and eventual nominee Charlotte Pritt which helped Republican nominee Cecil Underwood win the governor’s office in the general election.
Amit Thackeray in his electoral debut is pitted against Shiv Sena nominee Sada Sarvankar and Shiv Sena(UBT) nominee Mahesh Sawant.
Investments abound for Trump, who has a net worth in the billions, and for both Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, each worth millions.
Mr O’Flaherty, who led the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) from 2015 until December 2023, went up against two other hopefuls for the job, Bulgarian nominee Meglena Kuneva and Austrian nominee Manfred Nowak.
Republican Nominee former President Donald Trump last December that neither Biden nor Harris would be the Democratic nominee.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, and Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, right, faced off Tuesday in a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News, in New York.
Since Biden's debate debacle on June 27, many Democrats have privately and even openly looked to Harris to step in and succeed Biden as the party's presidential nominee, believing she has a better chance against GOP nominee Donald Trump.
The group’s strategists have said they’ll give their ballot line to a bipartisan ticket, with a presidential nominee from one major party and a vice presidential nominee from the other, if they see a path to victory.
The nationwide Florida Atlantic University poll released Wednesday found 45% of voters would like to see someone else as the Democratic nominee, 40% said he should remain as the Democratic nominee, and 16% weren’t sure.
The Sept. 10, 2024, debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was a referendum on gender and the U.S. presidency – Trump’s, that is.
Although Hirono continued in a tirade against Barrett didn’t allow the nominee to address those remarks, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) at the start of her questioning gave the nominee an opportunity to clarify and apologize.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton speaks as Republican nominee Donald Trump looks on during the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016.
Intel chief nominee vows intelligence free of biasPresident Donald Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence pledged at his confirmation hearing Tuesday to deliver intelligence free of bias,.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, is Catholic, which isn't very controversial — five of the eight sitting justices are also Catholic, as are the Democratic presidential nominee and the Democratic House speaker.
Just Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) they would rather not consider a nominee, citing the 2016 precedent in which Republicans refused to consider former President Barack Obama's election year nominee.
Many voters in the state have been put off by Graham’s hypocrisy in rushing to appoint Trump supreme court nominee – after refusing to even consider Obama’s nominee.
Ronan, who is a nominee for Best Actress, and Pugh, a nominee for Best Supporting Actress, shared statements with Deadline (via ) regarding Gerwig’s perceived 2020 Oscars snub.
Common combinations with nominee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- nominee for 29×
- the nominee 28×
- presidential nominee 21×
- nominee in 14×
- republican nominee 14×
- gop nominee 13×
- democratic nominee 12×
- court nominee 10×
- nominee to 10×
- nominee is 9×