English edit

Noun edit

office holder (plural office holders)

  1. Alternative form of officeholder
    • 2001, Christopher Enright, Federal Administrative Law:
      A statutory office is a distinct form of body simply because the entity created is an office with a single office holder.
    • 2003, Stan and Gail Long, Everybody Lobbies, page 119:
      The more people an office holder can attract to one of these functions, the more authority they feel they can exercise.
    • 2014, Sue Thomas, Clyde Wilcox, Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future:
      If women's distinctive life experiences affect their educational and occupational opportunities and choices, does it follow that women office holders have different levels of political ambition for higher office compared with men?