nominee

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nom=i=nee

CIDE DICTIONARY

nominee, n. [See Nominate, and -ee.].

 A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office. One remains a nominee until one has been elected or has assumed the office.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nominee, n.
1 a person who is nominated for an office or as the recipient of a grant etc.
2 Commerce a person (not necessarily the owner) in whose name a stock etc. is registered.

Etymology

NOMINATE

DEVIL DICTIONARY

nominee

n. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

ROGET THESAURUS

nominee

Consignee

N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.