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officeholder
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun officeholder has 2 senses
- officeholder(n = noun.person) officer - someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" is a kind of holder, functionary, official
- officeholder(n = noun.person) incumbent - the official who holds an office; Array is a kind of holder, functionary, official
has particulars: probation officer, sergeant at arms, serjeant-at-arms
has particulars: office-bearer
CIDE DICTIONARY
officeholder, n.
One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
officeholder
bureaucrat, civil servant, functionary, functionnaire, holdover, incumbent, ins, jack-in-office, lame duck, mandarin, new broom, office-bearer, officer, official, officiary, petty tyrant, placeman, president-elect, public official, public servant, red-tapist
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