nominating
- 1Present participle and gerund of nominate.
The committee is nominating three candidates for the open seat.
Nominating a successor requires the board's formal approval.
Note
One -ing spelling does two grammatical jobs. As a participle it joins a form of be to make the progressive (the party is nominating her). As a gerund it works as a noun subject while still taking an object, as in Nominating him was a mistake. It carries every living sense of nominate, including the cue-sports habit of naming the pocket before a shot. The obsolete sense of conferring a name has fallen out of use.
nominating is a form of nominate
nominate, verb: To put forward someone's name as a candidate for a particular role, position, or office. Full entry
- Spelling
- nominate → nominating: drop the e, add -ing
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