Thesaurus results for APPOINTEE

appointee

noun

ə-ˌpȯin-ˈtē

as in nominee

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet

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Recent Examples of appointee All of Virginia’s local boards of elections have Republican majorities because state law says the majority of appointees will be the same party as the governor, who in this case is a Republican. —

Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024 Biden also filled the country’s regulatory agencies with appointees from the economic left of the Party. —

Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Some members could stick around if Johnson chooses them as part of his 11 appointees after the election. —

Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024 The vast majority of these departments rely on Congress for funding and many political appointees, such as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), can be fired at will by the President. —

Paul Weinstein Jr., Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for appointee