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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nomination \Nom'i*na"tion\, noun [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; as, to win the nomination.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nomination
noun
1: the act of officially naming a candidate; "the Republican nomination for Governor"
2: 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"
3: 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" [syn: {nominating speech}, {nominating address}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "nomination": acceptance speech, apostolic orders, appointment, assignment, calling, canonization, caucus nomination, conferment, consecration, designation, direct nomination, election, holy orders, induction, installation, institution, investiture, major orders, minor orders, naming, ordainment, orders, ordination, petition nomination, posting, preferment, presentation, proposal, reading in, selection, tabbing, transferral
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