Officeholder

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Officeholder \Of"fice*hold"er\, n.
     One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the
     civil service; a placeman.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  officeholder
       n 1: 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" [syn: {officer}]
       2: the official who holds an office [syn: {incumbent}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "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