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The one who gets the applause before anyone checks if they actually won.
means A person formally put forward for an award, office, or position, pending the actual decision.
from From Latin 'nominare' — 'to name' — itself from 'nomen,' meaning 'name.' The same root gave English 'noun,' 'nominal,' and 'nominate.' A nominee is, quite literally, someone who has been named for something — the '-ee' suffix marking them as the one the action is done *to*, same pattern as 'employee' or 'trainee': someone else does the naming, they just get named.
- origin
- from Latin nominare, to name
- legal use
- can mean a stand-in holding assets for someone else
- oscar math
- most nominees leave with nothing but a tote bag