Appointee
[ə,pɒɪn'tiː] or [ə,pɔɪn'ti]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is appointed to a job or position.
(noun.) an official who is appointed.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A person appointed.
(v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Editor: Will
Examples
- The routine conception dwindled, and the Roosevelt appointees went at issues as problems to be solved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had all his appointees working for the City on the Hill. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Commission may have imagined that the four appointees--unpaid--would be four men like themselves--who knows, perhaps four men from among themselves? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Shelley