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Someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
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officeholder
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" [syn: officer ] the official who holds an office [syn: incumbent ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Officeholder \Of"fice*hold"er\, n. One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office; an incumbent
Usage examples of officeholder.
Even the most chowderheaded officeholders know that, like it or not, they are judged by the company they keep.
In later days--days of Filipinization--Filipino clerks and officeholders implanted in numbers have been added to their compatriots in Zamboanga town.
Behavioral scientists have speculated that many officeholders suffer from a cerebral condition known as Milhous Syndromea disorder causing the part of the brain that controls modesty, truthfulness and frugality to shrink to the size of a subway token.
If the Orange Bowl feels obliged to suck up to officeholders, then at least it should take precautions to protect the general public.
Actually, Henry was in better shape, despite his illness, than most of the middle-aged officeholders with him, and he ended by helping some of them.
It contains the palaces of the Sultan and his top officials, as well as the residences of those officeholders and public employees who are permitted to live there.
That kind of straightforward tyranny of the majority has many disadvantages, one of which is that it makes officeholders difficult to bribe, beyond the most routine grease and graft, and makes it even more difficult to place sympathetic people in useful positions.
Court ranged behind, also in fours-peers and officeholders and a rear guard of mounted escort.
By popular superstition, every officeholder, appointive or elective, is suspected of living by a process midway between cannibalism and vampirism, and classed with robbing the dead.
We have a comprehensive examination system in the civil service, and every officeholder, except members of the Cabinet, retains his office while efficiently performing his duty, without regard to politics.