officeholder
Example Sentences
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I tend to interpret this complaint as a proxy for something else—voters don’t eject officeholders they like on grounds of longevity in office.
Authority over education is distributed among different officeholders.
From Los Angeles Times
Historian Gordon Wood wrote that the American Revolution “reconstituted what Americans meant by public or state power and brought about an entirely new kind of popular politics and a new kind of democratic officeholder.”
Previous officeholders had gone on diplomatic missions, run task forces or even served as the president’s attack dog.
The officeholder also leads the more than 6,000 members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
