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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" [syn: officeholder, officer]
2: the official who holds an office [syn: incumbent, officeholder]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1787 one holding a public office

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Officeholder Of"fice*hold"er, n. An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.

Moby Thesaurus

bureaucrat, civil servant, functionary, functionnaire, holdover, incumbent, ins, jack-in-office, lame duck, mandarin, new broom, office-bearer, officer, official, officiary, petty tyrant, placeman, president-elect, public official, public servant, red-tapist