officeholder

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: of=fice=hold=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

officeholder, n. 

 One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

officeholder

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