nomination

From Middle English nominacion, nomination, from Latin nōminātiō, from the verb nōminō (“to name; to nominate”).

nomination (countable and uncountable, plural nominations)

An act or instance of nominating.
(more common) The result of such a nomination act.
A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

an act or instance of nominating

Arabic: تَعْيِين m (taʕyīn), تَرْشِيح m (taršīḥ)
Belarusian: прызначэ́нне n (pryznačénnje), назначэ́нне n (naznačénnje), наміна́цыя f (naminácyja)
Bulgarian: номина́ция f (nominácija), назначе́ние (bg) n (naznačénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 提名 (zh) (tímíng), 指名 (zh) (zhǐmíng)
Coptic: ⲯⲩⲫⲟⲥ (psuphos)
Czech: nominace f
Finnish: ehdollepano, nimeäminen (fi)
French: nomination (fr) f
Galician: nomeamento (gl) m
German: Nominierung (de) f, Aufstellung (de) f, Kandidatenkür f
Greek: αναγόρευση (el) f (anagórefsi)
Ancient: ὀνομασία f (onomasía)
Hindi: नामांकन m (nāmāṅkan)
Hungarian: jelölés (hu)
Irish: ainmniú m
Italian: nominazione (it) f
Japanese: 指名 (ja) (しめい, shimei), ノミネート (ja) (nominēto)
Kazakh: номинация (nominasiä), атау (atau)
Korean: 지명(指名) (ko) (jimyeong), 노미네이트 (nomineiteu), 공천(公薦) (gongcheon)
Maori: whakaingoatanga, tautapatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nominasjon (no) m

Nynorsk: nominasjon m
Polish: nominacja (pl) f
Portuguese: nomeação (pt) f
Russian: назначе́ние (ru) n (naznačénije), номина́ция (ru) f (nominácija)
Slovak: nominácia f
Spanish: nominación (es) f
Swedish: nominering (sv)
Tagalog: sangalan
Ukrainian: ви́значення (uk) n (význačennja), призна́чення (uk) n (pryznáčennja), номіна́ція (uk) f (nominácija)

a device or means by which a person or thing is nominated

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