Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who nominates, appoints, ordains, or settles. See
appointor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
appoints (in any sense)
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Examples
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He realized that the taint of his appointer is still with him.
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Conversely, if someone becomes chief this or that just because he or she has good contact with the appointer, that is not meritocracy.
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Burris was never the problem, just how he got there - and as long as he is honest and competent, holding him responsible for the shortcomings of his appointer is as fair as holding a baby responsible for being conceived by his parent’s drunken tryst. —
Burris Cleared to Take Senate Seat - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Trying to get on the track of Sir Reuben's appointment last night, since, with the exception of the cook, his 'appointer' was the last person who saw him before his disappearance.
Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923
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If the only resistance to his seating is the taint of his appointer, where is the evidence that there is anything amiss?
Republican Leader Threatens to Block Seating of Franken - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The president is head of state, commander in chief, custodian of the nuclear suitcase, director of domestic and foreign policy, master of the security services and the Security Council, and appointer of regional governors.
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The president is head of state, commander in chief, custodian of the nuclear suitcase, director of domestic and foreign policy, master of the security services and the Security Council, and appointer of regional governors.
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The Senate does not convene a rules committee investigation just to stall an appointee because they don't like the appointer.
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Barack Obama is seemingly slandered as well, as he is name checked as the current president and thus the appointer of a wrongheaded bureaucrat who shows up, questions everyone, and then interferes whenever possible (yes, Bush was gently mocked in the first film, but he wasn't named and his underlings were shown as competent).
Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: The IMAX Experience(2009) 2009
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So to keep a theoretic $1 million out of Blago's war chest (and doing something which apparent almost all politicians do in these circumstance namely making sure that the appointee feels indebted to the appointer) the state should spend $30-50 million at a time when we are in an economin crisis.
Special Election For Obama's Seat Put On Hold, Could Be In Serious Trouble 2009
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