noun
definition
A person who is appointed
example
The ambassador is a political appointee, not a career diplomat.
Examples of appointees in a Sentence
The police officials throughout the republic are also appointees of the president and are under his orders.
It provided for municipal elections in January; for the election of a mayor for four years; for his recall at the end of two years if a majority of the registered voters so vote in the state election in November in the second year of his term; for the summary removal for cause by the mayor of any department head or other of his appointees; for a city council of one chamber of nine members, elected at large each for three years; for nomination by petition; for a permanent finance commission appointed by the governor; for the confirmation of the mayor's appointments by the state civil service commission; for the mayor's preparation of the annual budget (in which items may be reduced but not increased by the council), and for his absolute veto of appropriations except for school use.
The governors of the federal territories are appointees of the president of the republic, and the jefe politico of each territorial municipio is an appointee of the governor.
The execution of the laws in the departments and provinces, as well as the maintenance of public order, is entrusted to prefects and sub-prefects, who are appointees of the president.
The national territory adjacent to Brazil and Peru is governed by two delegados nacionales, appointees of the president.
At the head of the public school system is a state superintendent of public instruction, elected for four years, and a board of education, composed of the state superintendent, the president of the state university, the president of the Agricultural College, and two appointees of the governor serving for four years.
The departments are provided with biennial departmental assemblies, but their governors are appointees of the national executive.
The mayor, whose veto may be nullified by an adverse vote of two-thirds of the council, has very limited appointing powers, the head of the police department being the most important of his appointees.
Such a negative effect is unlikely to arise where the proposed joint appointees are from the same firm.
Nine of the governors, including the four local authority appointees, are due to retire at the end of August.
He also set a deadline for his political appointees to place their assets into trust.
We wish all the new appointees the very best of luck & success for the 2004/5 season.
However, many of these were very recent appointees.
The independent members are intended to bring experience and expertise to the House beyond that normally secured by party appointees.
I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Remember that under the existing law, trade union appointees represent " employees or groups of employees ", not merely union members.
In 1305, only, it was represented in parliament by two members; but it was never incorporated, and was governed by appointees of the manor court, until the Ross Improvement Act of 1865 established elected commissioners of the borough.
His appointees were chosen for their business qualifications.
Two of his appointees were Orestes Brownson and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Five of the seven judges in 1837 were his appointees, and the majority of them were Southerners who had been educated under Democratic influences at a time when the slavery controversy was forcing the party to return to its original strict construction views.
The provinces are administered by intendentes, and the departments by gobernadores, both appointees of the national executive.