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disnominate en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + nominate.

Meanings

1. To cancel the nomination of
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • “I nominate Riley Stokes and Cass McCasland,” Blackjack Butler said. “Hell,” Avery growled, “I disnominate both of them.” “You can't disnominate,” Reverend Mott said. “Those favoring Stokes and McCasland as full-fledged Rockies, raise your hands.". 2014, Bruce H. Thorstad, Ace of Diamonds:

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