appointee

American  

[uh-poin-tee, ap-oin-tee] / ə pɔɪnˈti, ˌæp ɔɪnˈti /

noun

1. a person who is appointed.

2. a beneficiary under a legal appointment.

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appointee British  

/ əpɔɪnˈtiː, ˌæp- /

noun

1. a person who is appointed

2. property law a person to whom property is granted under a power of appointment

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Etymology

Origin of appointee

1720–30; appoint + -ee, as translation of French appointé

Example Sentences

Marocco was meant to be “the destroyer, and then someone else would come in to rebuild,” one former official said a senior political appointee had told her.

From Salon

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a group of coin experts, artists and bipartisan political appointees, consulted historians, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution and others.

From The Wall Street Journal

Typically, Congress gave the appointees, a mix of Republicans and Democrats, a fixed term and said they could be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Fed presidents provide an apolitical buffer because they aren’t political appointees and often have no partisan background.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Obviously some of these conditions are, in my word, disgusting,” Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, said at a hearing Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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