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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust;
- Example: "he is an officer of the court"
- Example: "the club elected its officers for the coming year"
[syn: officeholder, officer]

2. the official who holds an office;
[syn: incumbent, officeholder]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Officeholder \Of"fice*hold"er\, n. One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: officeholder, officer] 2: the official who holds an office [syn: incumbent, officeholder]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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