NOMINEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nominee mean? 

• NOMINEE (noun)
  The noun NOMINEE has 1 sense:

1. a politician who is running for public office

  Familiarity information: NOMINEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMINEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A politician who is running for public office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

campaigner; candidate; nominee

Hypernyms ("nominee" is a kind of...):

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nominee"):

dark horse (a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly)

favorite son (a United States politician favored mainly in his or her home state)

running mate (a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices)

spoiler (a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning)

stalking-horse (a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate)

write-in; write-in candidate (a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters)

 Context examples 

Because the man produced is not the original nominee of Sir Charles Tregellis.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even money upon Sir Charles’s nominee!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gentlemen, cried Jackson, again, I am requested to inform you that Sir Charles Tregellis’s nominee is Jack Harrison, fighting at thirteen-eight, and Sir Lothian Hume’s is Crab Wilson, at thirteen-three.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unless you produce your nominee within five-and-twenty minutes, I claim the match.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He began backing Sir Charles’s nominee from the moment he arrived. Some of the other boys took the office from him, and they very soon brought the odds down amongst them.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we complain that Jim Harrison has been crippled, they would answer that they have no official knowledge that Jim Harrison was our nominee.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, although my uncle had not yet named his man, there was no doubt amongst the public that Jim was to be his nominee, and the report of his physique and of his performance found him many backers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)