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UK
/ɐpˈɔɪntiː/
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[ US /əˈpɔɪnti, əpɔɪnˈti/ ]
[ US /əˈpɔɪnti, əpɔɪnˈti/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is appointed to a job or position
- an official who is appointed
How To Use appointee In A Sentence
- The new appointee will be working closely with both departments.
- More than two-thirds of the appointees are holdovers from the previous cabinet.
- The majority of his appointees have been approved, and they have been approved with no public rancor or bitter political warfare.
- As an appointee you’re responsible for making and maintaining any benefit claims.
- The authors of the report appropriately place primary blame for the breakdown in professionalism on former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, who showed a breathtaking disengagement from the process of disposing of nine presidential appointees. Underplayed Stories of the Day - Swampland - TIME.com
- Meanwhile, senior mandarins are concerned about the number of political appointees being parachuted into government as civil servants. Times, Sunday Times
- Appointees interviewed repeated a familiar theme: They all loved their jobs but are beating a retreat without regret.
- This theme has to be glossed somewhat, because of the platform, but we can make the point that much criticism of our appointees has been misdirected.
- With him, Rumsfeld brought a tight group of political appointees who did not inherit the Pentagon in order to pursue business as usual.
- On Saturday, Dole piled on, using Napolitano to blast Clinton judicial appointees as soft on crime.