nominee:
(plural: ‘nominees‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
Oscar best actress nominees
a person whose name has been nominated by somebody else for some contest or election;
a person or some office in whose name a security/stock is registered and acts on behalf of somebody else whose identity is to be hidden;
a person whose name has been suggested/nominated by a bank account holder or insurance policy holder as the person who can claim the money in their account or policy money in the event of their death,
USA republican party nominees
When the Prime Mister nominated Justice John Foster as his nominee for the post of Chief Supreme Court Justice, most politicians and law experts felt he was a wrong nominee, but in due course, Justice Foster proved his mettle.
Most often, in banking, insurance and legal transactions, a husband chooses his wife as his nominee and the wife, her husband and as the second nominee he/she chooses the eldest child.
Though we hear several nominees being nominated for Oscar Awards, only one nominee is elected for each category each year, and though an artist may be nominated several times, the chance may be that he/she never wins the prize!
