Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or filled by appointment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to appointment; appointing: as, the appointive power of the President.
- Dependent upon the exercise of the power or right to appoint; filled by appointment: opposed to elective: as, appointive offices.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Subject to appointment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, pertaining to, or filled by
appointment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the act of appointing
- adjective subject to appointment
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Examples
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And those numbers don't include blacks in appointive office.
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And those numbers don't include blacks in appointive office.
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Ike had used his appointive powers to name Supreme Court justices who would correct the injustice of Plessy.
Ken Blackwell: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Kept His Eyes on the Prize Ken Blackwell 2012
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This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe - squeezer or tax-farmer.
Chapter 15 2010
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Ike had used his appointive powers to name Supreme Court justices who would correct the injustice of Plessy.
Ken Blackwell: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: He Kept His Eyes on the Prize Ken Blackwell 2012
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But while there is a federal law making it illegal to "offer to procure appointive public office," that statute does not appear to extend to the District government.
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Generally, the laws about which positions are elective and which are appointive are made by state legislatures.
Matthew Yglesias » The High Price of Electing City Treasurers 2010
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She is so good at finding intersections between populist positions and parochial interest, she ought to get out of the appointive mode and consider elective politics.
House of cards bigger and better than ever (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I utilize a regression discontinuity strategy based on the effect of narrowly-passing appointive city treasurer referendums on city borrowing costs.
Matthew Yglesias » The High Price of Electing City Treasurers 2010
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But while there is a federal law making it illegal to "offer to procure appointive public office," that statute does not appear to extend to the District government.
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