NOMINATING SPEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nominating speech mean? 

• NOMINATING SPEECH (noun)
  The noun NOMINATING SPEECH has 1 sense:

1. an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

  Familiarity information: NOMINATING SPEECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMINATING SPEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

nominating address; nominating speech; nomination

Context example:

the nomination was brief and to the point

Hypernyms ("nominating speech" is a kind of...):

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)