CONFIRMATION HEARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confirmation hearing mean? 

• CONFIRMATION HEARING (noun)
  The noun CONFIRMATION HEARING has 1 sense:

1. a hearing held by the US Senate to gather information on whether to approve or reject candidates for high federal office who are nominated by the president

  Familiarity information: CONFIRMATION HEARING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIRMATION HEARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hearing held by the US Senate to gather information on whether to approve or reject candidates for high federal office who are nominated by the president

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("confirmation hearing" is a kind of...):

hearing (a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken)