NOMINEE
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)
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; favourite son (a 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)
