nominate

Verb

• create and charge with a task or function
  • nominate a committee
    

• charge with a function; charge to be
  • She was named Head of the Committee
    
  • She was made president of the club
    

• put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position
  • The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission
    

• propose as a candidate for some honor

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  appoint , name , constitute , make , propose , put up , put forward