All officeholder synonyms

noun officeholder

• job — the central figure in an Old Testament parable of the righteous sufferer.
• appointee — An appointee is someone who has been chosen for a particular job or position of responsibility.
• assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
• nominee — a person nominated, as to run for elective office or fill a particular post.
• office — Microsoft Office
• post — power-on self-test
• berth — A berth is a bed on a boat, train, or caravan.
• candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
• delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
• employment — The condition of having paid work.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
• situation — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
• station — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• administrator — An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
• aide — An aide is an assistant to someone who has an important job, especially in government or in the armed forces.
• diplomat — a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
• envoy — A messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission.
• executive — Having the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect.
• official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
• secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
• assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
• consul — A consul is an official who is sent by his or her government to live in a foreign city in order to look after all the people there that belong to his or her own country.
• legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
• liaison — the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.
• lieutenant — Military. first lieutenant. second lieutenant.
• plenipotentiary — a person, especially a diplomatic agent, invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
• premier — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
• prime minister — the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry: the British prime minister.
• chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
• civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
• deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
• director — a person or thing that directs.
• leader — a person or thing that leads.
• manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
• president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
• bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
• dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
• functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• magistrate — a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.
• public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
• commissioner — A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
• minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
• officer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
• ceo — CEO is an abbreviation for chief executive officer.
• boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.