0 someone who has been chosen officially for a job or responsibility: --
The new appointee will be working closely with both departments.
a government appointee
2 someone who has been chosen officially for a job or responsibility: --
One in five of the new appointees is female.
They are political appointees and try to be more loyal than the king.
Furthermore, notwithstanding formal independence, the power of appointment was utilised to install politically preferred regulatory appointees.
Twenty-three, or 5 per cent, of agencies created in the postwar period have party balancing limitations on appointees.
The personal qualities displayed by the first appointee can be considered a determining factor in the success or failure of an ombudsman.
The hierarchy was strictly top-down in orientation : appointees carried out orders from above and had little horizontal interaction.
Although the 1868 constitution prevented making parish sheriffs into appointees, it did not prevent stripping them of their tax assessment and collection duties.
They have diluted presidential appointment powers by giving agency administrators fixed terms and writing into law specific qualifications for appointees.
While most presidential systems do not require legislative approval of appointees, many nations give the assembly some influence over cabinet formation.
