Definition of "nominating speech" []

• An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "First, Colu gave the second nominating speech for George."
• "No one thought Eagleton would lose, but for the first time in history, women constituted almost half of a national convention’s delegates, and wanted at least a token nominating speech for one of their own: Sissy Farenthold, a liberal activist who’d almost won the Democratic primary for the governor of Texas."