Definition of "officeholder" []

• One who holds public office. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Whether you agree or disagree, the lack of disrespect for the office and officeholder is astonishing."
• ""It is not the worst thing in the world to be a one-term officeholder," globalist pundit Fareed Zakaria told Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and a national TV audience on Friday."
• "CAFFERTY: Yes, unlike his father, who was a one-term officeholder for that very reason."