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NOMINATING SPEECH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nominating speech mean?
• NOMINATING SPEECH (noun)
The noun NOMINATING SPEECH has 1 sense:
1. an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
Familiarity information: NOMINATING SPEECH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
nominating address; nominating speech; nomination
Context example:
the nomination was brief and to the point
Hypernyms ("nominating speech" is a kind of...):
oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
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