appointee
noun
ap·poin·tee
ə-ˌpȯin-ˈtē 
ˌa-
1
: one who is appointed
2
: one to whom an estate is appointed
Examples of appointee in a Sentence
the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet
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Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services is filling with political appointees whose views of vaccines run less obviously counter to evidence than Kennedy’s.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2025
Working alongside institutionalists like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and through appointees like Gary Cohn and H. R. McMaster, his Administration kicked off with a familiarly wonkish feel.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
The three-judge panel that heard the arguments included two Trump appointees, Judges Justin Walker and Gregory Katsas, and one Biden appointee, Judge Florence Pan.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2025
Unqualified appointees who can’t ascend to political power based on their merits have little choice but to stick with the leader.
—Erica Frantz, The Conversation, 16 May 2025
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2025
Working alongside institutionalists like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and through appointees like Gary Cohn and H. R. McMaster, his Administration kicked off with a familiarly wonkish feel.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
The three-judge panel that heard the arguments included two Trump appointees, Judges Justin Walker and Gregory Katsas, and one Biden appointee, Judge Florence Pan.
—Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2025
Unqualified appointees who can’t ascend to political power based on their merits have little choice but to stick with the leader.
—Erica Frantz, The Conversation, 16 May 2025
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appointee
noun
ap·poin·tee
ə-ˌpȯin-ˈtē
ˌa-ˌpȯin-
: a person appointed to a position or an office
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appointee
noun
ap·poin·tee
ə-ˌpȯin-ˈtē, ˌa-
1
: a person who is appointed to a position
2
: a person to whom property is appointed under a power of appointment
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