Office-holder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Office-holder is a noun meaning Alternative form of officeholder.
Meaning
Alternative form of officeholder.
Example Sentences
One is the idea of an office-holder 'giving an account' of their actions after the event to a body to which they are answerable or responsible.
Any Christian office-holder, be he pope or bishop, emperor or king, was expected to be totally identified with his office, to enter into a spiritual union with it, and this “matrimonial' relationship was signified by the ring bestowed at ordination or coronation ceremony.
Traditionally, it has been taken for granted that the most efficient way to organize people was through a system of legally or rationally accepted rules or procedures, with power residing in the appointed office-holder at different levels in the hierarchy (Weber, 1947, pp 329-41).
Word Forms
- office-holders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include personnel, officer, staff, officeholder, official, occupant.
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