appointee
Americannoun
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a person who is appointed
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property law a person to whom property is granted under a power of appointment
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Origin of appointee
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He’s no longer the shortest-lived Trump appointee, but he still is shy about speaking his mind about his former boss and the upcoming elections.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Another appointee runs a gastroenterology research center in Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Fed is currently led by Chairman Kevin Warsh, a Trump appointee.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Many board meetings would kick off with tours of a certain museum, and Graves and a fellow Republican appointee, Adrian Smith of Nebraska, would often be taken aback by what they saw.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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