appointive
adjective
ap·point·ive
ə-ˈpȯin-tiv 
: of, relating to, or filled by appointment
an appointive office
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Currently, the charter does not authorize the mayor to make interim appointments of appointive and administrative officers to vacant positions.
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Christina Hall, Freep.com, 5 Nov. 2025
After grassroots reforms in the early 1990s failed, the Illinois legislature transferred appointive power for school governance to Chicago’s mayor in 1995.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2024
Was this part of a plan or a deal?
From December 2012 until December 2018, Peterman was one of the virtually untouchable members of the California Public Utilities Commission, holding an appointive job from which she could not be fired, not even by the governor who put her there, Jerry Brown.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
The country’s national average of women’s political participation has remained around 6.7% in elective and appointive positions, far below the global average of 22.5%.
—H.e. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. K.y. Amoako, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
An ordinance was voted on, 3-2, to change the appointive power from the mayor to a majority of the City Council.
—Laura Groch
jan. 29, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
The act also specifies a 30% minimum quota of women for all elective and appointive positions in Sierra Leone's government or public offices, along with the requirement that every government department has its own gender unit within its planning office.
—Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
These Black women paved the way for others who would, in the decades that followed, gain political power through elective and appointive offices.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Christina Hall, Freep.com, 5 Nov. 2025
After grassroots reforms in the early 1990s failed, the Illinois legislature transferred appointive power for school governance to Chicago’s mayor in 1995.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2024
Was this part of a plan or a deal?
From December 2012 until December 2018, Peterman was one of the virtually untouchable members of the California Public Utilities Commission, holding an appointive job from which she could not be fired, not even by the governor who put her there, Jerry Brown.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
The country’s national average of women’s political participation has remained around 6.7% in elective and appointive positions, far below the global average of 22.5%.
—H.e. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Dr. K.y. Amoako, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
An ordinance was voted on, 3-2, to change the appointive power from the mayor to a majority of the City Council.
—Laura Groch
jan. 29, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
The act also specifies a 30% minimum quota of women for all elective and appointive positions in Sierra Leone's government or public offices, along with the requirement that every government department has its own gender unit within its planning office.
—Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
These Black women paved the way for others who would, in the decades that followed, gain political power through elective and appointive offices.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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“Appointive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appointive. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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appointive
adjective
ap·point·ive
ə-ˈpȯint-iv
: of, relating to, or filled by appointment
an appointive office
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