名词

1. (选举、职务竞争中的)提名
A nomination is an official suggestion of someone as a candidate in an election or for a job.

2. (奖项的)提名
A nomination for an award is an official suggestion that someone or something should be given that award.

3. 任命;指定
The nomination of someone to a particular job or position is their appointment to that job or position.

1. the act of officially naming a candidate

e.g. the Republican nomination for Governor

2. an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

e.g. the nomination was brief and to the point

Synonym: nominating speechnominating address

3. the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election

e.g. there was keen competition for the nomination
his nomination was hotly protested