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  2. Political appointments in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hillary Clinton takes oath-of-office as United States Secretary of State. Bill Clinton also pictured. Administering the oath is Judge Kathryn A. Oberly.. According to the United States Office of Government Ethics, a political appointee is "any employee who is appointed by the President, the Vice President, or agency head". [1]

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Czar (political term) - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term czar has been used by the media to refer to appointed executive branch officials since at least the 1930s and then the 1940s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [6] [7] [8] In 1942, The Washington Post reported on the "executive orders creating new czars to control various aspects of our wartime economy."

  5. Bureaucrat - Wikipedia

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    They are personally free and appointed to their position on the basis of conduct. They exercise the authority delegated to them in accordance with impersonal rules, and their loyalty is enlisted on behalf of the faithful execution of their official duties. Their appointment and job placement are dependent upon their technical qualifications.

  6. Officer of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, the principal officers of the U.S., such as federal judges, and ambassadors and "other public Ministers and Consuls", are appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, but Congress may vest the appointment of inferior officers to the president, courts, or federal ...

  7. Regent - Wikipedia

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    In a monarchy, a regent (from Latin regens [1] 'ruling, governing') [2] [3] is a person appointed to govern a state pro tempore (Latin for 'for the time being') because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  9. Appointment - Wikipedia

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    Superior and federal court judges are appointed by federal government, while inferior courts are appointed by the provincial government; Warrant of Appointment, an official document presented by the President of Ireland to persons upon appointment to certain offices