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Definition

propose that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor

The president nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission.

nominated = proposed that someone be offered a position, be a candidate, or receive an honor

Howard, the year Al Smith was nominated, your father came to me and...
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

nominated = proposed that he be offered a position (to represent the political party)

Mrs. Morrow'll keep thinking of him now as this very shy, modest guy that wouldn't let us nominate him for president.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

nominate = propose that someone be a candidate

nominate a committee
And every morning the druggist rushed for the paper to see if his nomination were in it.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

I've even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest person ever.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
Na-: a prefix meaning "nominated" or "next in line."
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Why would they nominate me for homecoming court?
Alex Flinn -- Beastly
He retired soon after the vote, only to be nominated as a justice to the Supreme Court by the newly elected president, Ulysses S. Grant.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
The British Government will change the succession in Hilas and Bunar, and nominate new heirs to the throne.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
"But as they say at the Oscars, it's an honor to be nominated."
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?
William Shakespeare -- As You Like It
Nominated, constituted, and appointed him.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Singer-songwriter and actor LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III has recorded more than twenty albums and was nominated for two Grammy Awards in the 1980s.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Already it was clear that, of the three of us, she was first in line for the Oscar nomination.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees

He had won the Republican nomination for the presidency in the spring.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman

When the nominated day arrived at last, we gathered in the Delf's stippled sunshine for what we fervently hoped wouldbe the last time.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
I was among fifteen *girls nominated to walk out for inspection by the assembled student body on voting day.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
But Norris himself scoffed at the latter reports: I have no expectation of being nominated for President.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage

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