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disnominate

disnominate verb: to cancel the nomination of.

Verb

disnominate (third-person singular simple present disnominates, present participle disnominating, simple past and past participle disnominated)

  1. To cancel the nomination of
    • The writers of the platform could not disnominate him; but offense was taken; and it was generally considered that he had violated a tacit agreement—that he should not have accepted the nomination if he had not meant to defend its adopted policies.1965, Rexford Guy Tugwell, How They Became President: Thirty-five Ways to the White House
    • Maybe a Governor has a real specific reason why this is a bad site. And maybe there's a need for the coal there because of the industry, but he's going to have a right to, in fact, disnominate that area under our EMARS system.1976, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels, Oversight of the Operation of the U.S. Geological Survey, page 78

Forms of disnominate

third-person singular presentdisnominates
present participledisnominating
past participledisnominated
pastdisnominated

Origin of disnominate

From dis- + nominate.

Questions about disnominate

What does disnominate mean?
Disnominate means to cancel the nomination of.
What part of speech is disnominate?
Disnominate is a verb.
What is the past tense of disnominate?
The past tense of disnominate is disnominated.

Words near disnominate in the dictionary

  1. Disneyphobia
  2. Disneys
  3. Disneyverse
  4. Disneyworld
  5. Disnification
  6. disnominate
  7. disnominated
  8. disnominates
  9. disnominating
  10. disobedience
  11. disobediences

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