What's the difference between appoint and appointee?
Appoint
Definition:
(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
(14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
(18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
Appointee
Definition:
(v. t.) A person appointed.
(v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report, Letting the big fish swim: failure to prosecute high-level corruption in Uganda , published on Monday, said no high-ranking official, minister or political appointee had served a prison sentence despite investigations into numerous corruption scandals.
(2) All Harris appointees now have titles along with Lord Harris himself.
(3) That … would color his approach to Vladimir Putin and the Russian threat.” McCain nonetheless said Trump’s appointees would be given a fair hearing in the Senate, where they must first clear relevant committees before receiving a vote in the broader chamber.
(4) In March, the tribunal ruled unconstitutional a reform to the court that would have given more power to PiS appointees and forced the court to consider cases in chronological order, hampering its ability to scrutinise government activity.
(5) But not only do Corbett and his appointees at the SRC think that the educators of Philadelphia can’t do basic math, they also think we have amnesia.
(6) On Thursday, a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was fired after it was noticed that he had written a critical opinion column about Trump in October.
(7) Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company Read more The top level officials in the National Security Council (NSC) are political appointees who have to submit resignations and leave in a normal transition.
(8) In 2012-13 – the first year the statistics were published – 37.15% of appointments were of female candidates, while women accounted for 39.2% of the appointees in 2013-14.
(9) Doumar, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Gloucester high school could force Grimm to use unisex bathrooms because Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate bathrooms based on sex as long as the bathrooms for each sex are comparable”, he wrote.
(10) The tribunal’s new president promptly sent Rzepliński’s deputy on indefinite leave, giving PiS-appointees a majority.
(11) To think of her, not as a new appointee to an important role, not as a highly talented person taking the next step in her career, but as a woman and a mother.
(12) Ed Miliband's recent appointee to the House of Lords, Lord Glasman, is considered the "intellectual godfather" of the Labour party.
(13) The secretary of state approved four candidates on the basis that they met the specific skills and experiences set out in Ofcom’s advertised job descriptions.” The four new appointees are Simon Bax, the chairman of the Norwich-based newspaper group Archant and a former top Pixar executive; the ex-BBC executive and British Library chief Roly Keating ; Paul Geddes, the chief executive of Direct Line; and Christopher Holmes, the former Paralympic swimmer, who runs his own consultancy.
(14) If his aides didn’t keep changing his Twitter password, there’d be no job in the UK for which he wouldn’t suggest a head‑turning appointee.
(15) As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week : “What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.” Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose volunteer doctors had begun to treat Ebola cases as soon as the outbreak was officially diagnosed in March – three months after the first case – had warned WHO in strong terms that this outbreak was different from previous ones.
(16) The Department of Justice, in my view, is run by political appointees of the president,” he testified .
(17) In 2003-05 the Kayhan newspaper led the way with a series of critical editorials by Hossein Shariatmadari, who as editor-in-chief is an appointee of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(18) So it is unfortunate that the most recent appointee to the role, Liz Truss , has taken over the helm at a critical stage in the ongoing failure of the prison system, with murder, violence, self-harm, suicide, riots and even escapees a regular occurrence.
(19) The activists have a long list of demands: votes against “all Trump appointees”, opposing his supreme court nominee, using congressional procedures to “bring all business to a crawl to block Trump’s agenda and demand Steve Bannon be fired”.
(20) In addition to Posner – whom Ronald Reagan appointed in 1981 – the judges on the 7th circuit panel included 2009 Barack Obama appointee David Hamilton and Ann Claire Williams, a 1999 Bill Clinton appointee.