Usually means: Propose someone for a position.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nominate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nominate: Merriam-Webster
  3. nominate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nominate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nominate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nominate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nominate, nominate: Wordnik
  8. nominate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nominate: Wiktionary
  10. nominate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nominate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nominate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nominate: Dictionary.com
  14. nominate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NOMINATE (scaling method), Nominate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nominate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nominate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nominate: Rhymezone
  19. nominate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nominate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nominate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. nominate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nominate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. nominate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. nominate: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nominate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nominate: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nominate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nominate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
verb:  (cue sports) To specify in advance which pocket a ball will be potted in; to call; to name.
verb:  (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
adjective:  (zoology) nominotypical

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