Definition

A person who got the job not because of a resume but because someone with influence liked them enough to say so. Appointees are the folks who arrive at the agency on day one and spend their first week asking where the bathroom is.

Example Usage

The new agency director is a political appointee with a background in consulting, which is to say, no background in the agency's actual work.

Source: Provided dictionary definitions; standard government terminology

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