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Synonyms for office-holder


Grammar : Noun
Spell : aw-fis-hohl-der, of-is-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ fɪsˌhoʊl dər, ˈɒf ɪs-



Définition of office-holder

  • As in bureaucrat : noun government official
Example sentences :
  • The said Copperhead became in due time a Republican office-holder, and is one yet.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • He's the only office-holder in this burgh that hasn't got the decency to know that what I say goes!
  • Extract from : « The Red Mouse » by William Hamilton Osborne
  • There was not a Republican office-holder in the government service.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of the United States » by Edward Channing
  • Let the worth of the office-holder speak the worth of the government.
  • Extract from : « Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. » by Calvin Coolidge
  • President Jefferson watched the ceremony, but he joined the crowd of assembled visitors since he no longer was an office-holder.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • His true and fast friends, the abolitionists, equalized him per saltum to his master as a voter and office-holder.
  • Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
  • Was an office-holder or an office-wanter a political friend of Mr. Adams, that did not help him; a foe, that did not hinder.
  • Extract from : « Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3) » by Theodore Parker
  • I always said I didn't want to be a senator or a legislator, or any other sort of office-holder.
  • Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
  • If Mrs. Leonard had been an office-holder and a voter not a single township would have believed the truth of what she uttered.
  • Extract from : « Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, » by Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.
  • She was an office-holder, and the governor tried to put her out.
  • Extract from : « Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, » by Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.

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