[
US
/əˈpɔɪntɪv/
]
ADJECTIVE
- subject to appointment
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relating to the act of appointing
appointive powers
How To Use appointive In A Sentence
- First, his proposal to appoint ‘socially disadvantaged,’ voting members to local boards gives those members a second ingredient to what they already have, appointive representation.
- 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
- And while there was a time when most administrations would at least try to find qualified candidates for sensitive appointive posts - like those involving police powers - that tradition also has gradually passed away.
- In practical terms, an impeachment would mean he could not serve in any other federal elective or appointive office.
- Or is it like a choice appointive position, one with tons of patronage?
- Regardless of the source of appointive authority, chairs cannot lead effectively without the support of the department faculty because the majority of the work at an institution of higher education is done by the faculty.
- Virginia State University's Board of Visitors in August votes to dissolve the elective faculty council and replace it with an appointive university council composed of faculty, staff, administrators and students.
- Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office.
- In what follows, I summarize the most important documents clarifying the appointive status of the berdache as he appears in the Spanish and mestizo sources on the Spanish frontiers in these centuries.
- He notes the steadily increasing ranks of African-American Republicans holding significant elective and appointive office.