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Appointee

Appointee \Ap*point*ee"\, n. [F. appoint['e], p. p. of appointer. See Appoint, v. t.]

  1. A person appointed.

    The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees.
    --Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

  2. (law) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
    --Kent. Wharton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
appointee

1768, after French appointé, from apointer (see appoint + -ee).

Wiktionary
appointee

n. a person who is appointed

WordNet
appointee
  1. n. an official who is appointed

  2. a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointment]

Wikipedia
Appointee

Appointee may refer to:

  • a member who is appointed to a position or office is called an appointee; in law, such a term is applied to one who is granted power of appointment of property
  • appointee , a foot soldier in the French army, who, for long service and bravery, received more pay than other privates. Such rank is still used in the Swiss Army
  • the third most lower rank of the Italian Corps of Carabineers
  • the third most lower rank of the Swiss Armed Forces
  • a person or organisation entrusted with managing the daily finances of vulnerable individuals

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Usage examples of "appointee".

One big lousy government appointee with his hand in the till never let my initial suspicions reach the rest of the commission.

The organization would oversee the early phase of the occupation and Garner would eventually be succeeded by a more prominent political appointee, such as a Republican former state governor.

President as Chairman of the Federal Power Commission was not warranted by its rules, and did not deprive the appointee of his title to the office.

Madison, in the case both of appointees by the President and Senate and by the President alone, a purely ministerial act which has been lodged by statute with the Secretary of State and the performance of which may be compelled by mandamus unless the appointee has been in the meantime validly removed.

President during one term, by the operation of this law, will not extend the appointee during another term because that same party may happen to be re-elected to the Presidency.

From there he went to Washington, a Bush appointee, to evaluate civilian objections to the military tribunals.

He was a Democratic appointee, but respected on both sides of the aisle his constitutional wisdom.

Caesar in Gaul, he had been a raw political appointee, very much dependent on his senior centurion.

The coroner was a political appointee, and the position required no special medical or scientific expertise, only a tolerance for dead bodies.

Reagan administration and its appointees on the National Labor Relations Board.

But if any prospective or actual appointees became too bold, Clinton abandoned them quickly.

And as Kereku had just more or less observed, a sector governor who started doing little things like firing Senate-approved appointees on his own authority would not remain in his position long.

It has required that appointees be representative of a political party, of an industry, of a geographic region, or of a particular branch of the Government.

But the first two appointees, Henry Kissinger and former Democratic senator George Mitchell, resigned within days, citing potential conflicts of interest.

Edmunds referred were the appointees of President Johnson, and every one of them had been confirmed by the Senate of the United States when the Republicans had more than two-thirds of the body.