Nominee vs Nominal - What's the difference?
nominee | nominal |
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 or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
Existing in name only.
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(philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
(senseid) Insignificantly small; trifling.
Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
(finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
(finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
(grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
(engineering) According to plan or design; normal.
(economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation; contrasted with real.
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(statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
(grammar) A noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase.
(grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives.
As a verb nominee
is .As an adjective nominal is
of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.As a noun nominal is
(grammar) a noun or word group that functions as a noun phrase.nominee
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Supreme Court confiscated half of Thaksin Shinawatra's fortune after finding that, while being Prime Minister, he held shares in commercial companies through nominees .
nominal
English
(wikipedia nominal)Adjective
(-)- a nominal difference
- Nominal attendance on lectures.
- He gave me only a nominal sum for my services.
- The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.
- This sentence contains a nominal phrase.
- We'll just do a nominal flight check.
- Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal .
- My employer does not understand how low my nominal wage is.
- The nominal GNP of this country is pretty low.
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- Comparisons of the costs of the Diablo Canyon plant with other nuclear power plants can be misleading because the available cost data are in nominal dollars and therefore include the toll of inflation over the construction periods.
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- This simple process allows us to convert nominal dollars into inflation-adjusted real dollars.
Antonyms
* (economics) realDerived terms
* denominal * nominalness * nominallyNoun
(en noun)- This sentence contains two nominals .