Meanings
plural nominatees
- One who is nominated.
Two hundred and one of the 752 entries have become void by the death of nominatees, barren mares, and from other causes.
1887 July 26, “Coney Island Jockey Club”, in The New-York Times, volume XXXVI, number 11,201, New York, N.Y., page 2, column 52 more examples
The counting of the nominating ballots for alumni trustee to be elected to succeed Dr. Lloyd Shaw, whose term expires next June, shows Mrs. Carrie Davis Platt of Alamosa, Donald C. McCreery of Denver and Harold D. Roberts of Denver as nominatees.
1931 April 24, “Trustee Nominations”, in The Tiger, volume XXXIII, number 27, Colorado Springs, Colo.: Colorado College, page 2“Did you hear that Spence here is probably one of the top ten nominatees for San Francisco’s most eligible bachelor?”
2017, Jill Shalvis, “Coming Soon . . . An Excerpt from Chasing Christmas Eve”, in Lost and Found Sisters, London: Headline Eternal, →ISBN
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