appointed

Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.

Adjective

  1. Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
    • In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.

Hyponyms

state-appointed

Derived

nonappointed self-appointed unappointed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of appoint.
    • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” - 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp,...