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appointive [əˈpɔɪntɪv] adj
Chiefly US relating to or filled by appointment an appointive position How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Upon completion, candidates are promoted to the appointive officer level. In the last half-century of his life he affected a disdain for the exercise of American power, a revulsion for the vulgar practice of democracy, and in his 90th year advocated the establishment of an appointive "council of state"--drawn, in the words of the New York Times, "from the country's best brains to advise all branches of government in long-term policies. Behrens co-authored a legal paper in a Cornell Law School journal advocating appointive judicial selection at the state level. |
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