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office-holder

[aw-fis-hohl-der, of-is-]

of·fice·hold·er

[aw-fis-hohl-der, of-is-]
noun
a person filling a governmental position; public official.

Origin:
1850–55; office + holder

non·of·fice·hold·er, noun
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Office-holder is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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