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appointee definition - legal

n

  1. One who is appointed or assigned to a position or a public or private office or to perform a task.
  2. One who will receive property pursuant to a power of appointment. See also power of appointment.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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