Crossword-Solution: APPOINTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Appointive | a. | Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “APPOINTIVE”
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| subject to appointment; as, an appointive office | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
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greedy person
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Sentences with APPOINTIVE (5)
The inhabitants of the ceded territory were to be "incorporated into the Union." But Congress gave a different interpretation to these words and dashed all hopes by the act of 1804, which, while it conceded a legislative council, made its members and all officers appointive, and divided the province.
Sometimes the laws provided that not all the members of the appointive boards should "belong to the same political party" or "be of the same political opinion in state and national issues." It was clearly the intention to wipe out the partizan complexion of such boards.
Its membership was appointive, elective, hereditary, and even purchasable, but the form did not affect the substance.
Governor Carteret ruled the colony with an appointive council and a general assembly elected by the people, the typical colonial form of government.
Even as a stripling what things had he not learned—robbery, ballot-box stuffing, the sale of votes, the appointive power of leaders, graft, nepotism, vice exploitation—all the things that go to make up (or did) the American world of politics and financial and social strife.
Quotes with APPOINTIVE (2)
County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.