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If you n_______ someone to a job or position, you formally choose them to hold that job or position.If you nominate someone to a job or position, you formally choose them to hold that job or position.
Voters will choose fifty of the seventy five deputies. The Emir will nominate the rest.
The E.U. would nominate two members to the committee.
He was nominated by the African National Congress as one of its team at the Groote Sehuur talks.
An elderly person can nominate someone to act for them.
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If someone is nominated for a job or position, their name is formally suggested as a candidate for it.
Under party rules each candidate has to be nominated by 55 Labour MPs.
The public will be able to nominate candidates for awards such as the MBE.
...a presidential decree nominating him as sports ambassador.
If you nominate someone to a job or position, you formally choose them to hold that job or position.
Voters will choose fifty of the seventy five deputies. The Emir will nominate the rest.
The E.U. would nominate two members to the committee.
He was nominated by the African National Congress as one of its team at the Groote Sehuur talks.
An elderly person can nominate someone to act for them.
If someone or something such as an actor or a film is nominated for an award, someone formally suggests that they should be given that award.
Practically every movie he made was nominated for an Oscar.
...a campaign to nominate the twice World Champion as Sports Personality of the Year.
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