disnominate
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[edit]disnominate (third-person singular simple present disnominates, present participle disnominating, simple past and past participle disnominated)
- To cancel the nomination of
- 1965, Rexford Guy Tugwell, How They Became President: Thirty-five Ways to the White House:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 2014, Bruce H. Thorstad, Ace of Diamonds:
- “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.".