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Definitions for appointee
ə pɔɪnˈti, ˌæp ɔɪnˈtiap·pointee

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. appointeenoun

    an official who is appointed

  2. appointee, appointmentnoun

    a person who is appointed to a job or position

Wiktionary

  1. appointeenoun

    a person who is appointed

    The ambassador is a political appointee, not a career diplomat.

  2. Etymology: appointé, from appointer.

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  1. appointee

    An appointee is a person who has been assigned, nominated or chosen to occupy a particular position or role, often within an organization, committee, or the government, typically by someone in a higher position of authority or through a formal procedure.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Appointeeverb

    a person appointed

  2. Appointeeverb

    a person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed

  3. Etymology: [F. appoint, p. p. of appointer. See Appoint, v. t.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of appointee in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of appointee in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of appointee in a Sentence

  1. The Iowa Republican:

    No matter what the FBI finds, a political appointee of the Justice Department will ultimately make the decision of whether or not to prosecute.

  2. Chris Christie:

    It’s called burrowing, you take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.

  3. Kurt Volker:

    I found Gordon Sondland engagement to be very useful, gordon Sondland's a political appointee and had close ties with the political side of the White House that I did not have.

  4. Steve Spangle:

    [ S ] he told me that Peg Romanik had gotten a call from a high-level political appointee within the Department of the Interior who informed Peg Romanik that our position out here, in Arizona, was not the position of the administration.

  5. Anthony Fauci:

    She's not a political appointee but she's in a very political environment, i think you've got to cut her some slack and give her a break -- I think she's doing a very good job.

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