English-French translations for nominee

• candidat
  Un grand nombre de candidats ont d'ailleurs un passé communiste. There are many nominees with Communist backgrounds.
  Pourquoi avons-nous donc voté à une écrasante majorité la désignation de ces candidats? So why did we so overwhelmingly vote to appoint these nominees?
  Elles devraient se fonder sur des mécanismes vraiment ouverts de sélection des candidats. They should be based on genuinely open mechanisms of selecting nominees.
• candidate
• nomine

Definition of nominee

• A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office
• A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest

Examples

• The Supreme Court confiscated half of Thaksin Shinawatras fortune after finding that, while being Prime Minister, he held shares in commercial companies through nominees.

Related words

• nominal
• nomination
• nominate
• denominator
• nominator
• nominative
• ignominious
• nominalism
• nominalistic