Synonyms of appointees

appointees

noun

plural of appointee

as in nominees

one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty

the announcement of the presidential appointees to the cabinet

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nominees
• candidates
• designees
• selectees
• delegates
• licensees
• assignees
• deputies
• inductees
• licentiates
• permittees
• draftees
• agents
• selections
• endorsees
• choices
• delegatees
• picks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of appointees

Former African Development Bank vice president Bajabulile Swazi Tshabalala is also among the appointees, injecting development finance expertise. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 31 July 2026

The front office has been staffed by political appointees with little or no training in medicine or public health. — CBS News, 30 July 2026

The proceedings are overseen by immigration judges, appointees of the executive branch, who lack the specialized training of USCIS asylum officers, experts said. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 July 2026

One such director, Henry Loomis, quit in 1965, to protest meddling by political appointees from Lyndon Johnson’s White House. — Marc Fisher, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

Within months of his confirmation as secretary, Kennedy had dismissed every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory board and replaced them with new appointees, some of them prominent vaccine skeptics. — Karen Brown, NPR, 30 July 2026

The proposal would restrict international collaboration and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund, and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason. — Lisa Song, CNN Money, 28 July 2026

Enacted after Watergate, the provision was designed to prevent presidents, Cabinet officials, and other political appointees from using the IRS against their enemies or protecting their friends. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

Partially funded by the federal government, the institution is governed by a board of regents, which does not have presidential appointees and can’t be purged in the way that the board of the Kennedy Center was. — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026