# nominee

Pronunciation: say "nom-i-NEE" US /ˌnɑmɪˈni/, UK /ˌnɒmɪˈniː/

## Noun

1. A person named or designated by another to an office, duty, or position, or proposed by others for election to office.
   - Simple: A person chosen or put forward by others for a job, position, or election.
   - _The president's nominee for the court faced tough questioning from the panel._
   - _Voters will choose among three nominees in the spring primary._
2. A person or organization in whose name a security is registered while true ownership rests with another party, the nominator, often to conceal the nominator's identity.
   - Simple: A person or company that holds a stock or bond in their name for someone else, who is the real owner.
   - _The brokerage acted as nominee, registering the bonds while the investor stayed anonymous._
   - _Offshore nominees concealed who actually controlled the company's stock._
3. Under the copyhold system of land tenure, the person to whom a copyholder gives up their interest in the estate.
   - Simple: A person to whom the holder of certain old land rights hands over their interest.
   - _Upon surrender, the copyholder's interest passed to the nominee named in the manor roll._
   - _The steward entered the nominee's name in the manor court records._

## Origin

Formed from 'nominate' combined with the suffix '-ee'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nominee (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).