nominating speech

Other forms: nominating speeches

Definitions of nominating speech
  1. noun
    an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
    synonyms: nominating address, nomination
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    type of:
    oratory
    addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
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