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nominee

n. 1) a person or entity who is requested or named to act for another, such as an agent or trustee. 2) a potential successor to another's rights under a contract. Example: In a real estate purchase agreement, Bob Buyer agrees to purchase the property, but provides that title (legal ownership) will be granted to "Bob Buyer or nominee," so that Buyer can sell his rights to another person before the deal closes, or because Buyer is really acting for someone else. 2) the executor proposed by a person in a will is a nominee until officially appointed by the judge after the testator (will writer) has died, and the will is submitted for probate (administration of the estate). 3) a person chosen by convention, petition or primary election to be a candidate for public office. (See: executor, agent)

nominee

(Candidate), noun chosen representative, flag bearer, named representative, political representative, selection

nominee

(Delegate), noun appointee, consignee, representative, selectee, trustee

See also: candidate, contender, licensee

NOMINEE. One who has been named or proposed for an office.

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Initially, however, the hearings in the 1930s and 1940s were usually brief and perfunctory, held only long enough to accommodate the small number of witnesses who wanted to testify against a nominee.

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The nominees were chosen by a 29-member committee that included bishops, clergy and lay persons.

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Other nominations, if signed by at least one percent of the voting Members, may be submitted to the Executive Director in writing on or before November 1, and if each nomination so made is accepted in writing by the nominee, the name of such nominee shall be placed on the official ballot.

Proposed TAPPI Bylaws amendment

After a harrowing few years in the 1980s, when it appeared that Ronald Reagan might actually succeed in building a pro-life majority on the Supreme Court, many on the left were satisfied with any nominee who did not want to return to the days of back-alley abortions.