Appointors

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

Individuals or entities who designate or assign others to a specific office, role, or position in an official capacity; persons empowered to name or choose successors, trustees, or agents under legal or organizational authority; those responsible for selecting and installing individuals to fulfill certain duties or responsibilities
Parties authorized to choose or nominate people for particular positions or responsibilities within a legal, organizational, or institutional framework; individuals tasked with the formal selection of candidates or representatives under specific governing rules; agents or figures holding the power to formally allocate roles or responsibilities
Persons holding the power to delegate, commission, or select specific individuals for designated roles, commissions, or trusts; those who have the authority to designate appointees in a legal, corporate, or administrative context; individuals acting as decision-makers in nominating or assigning positions or responsibilities

Etymology: "Appointors" is the plural of "appointor," a noun formed from the verb "appoint" plus the suffix "-or," which marks a person or thing that performs an action. An appointor is therefore someone who appoints, that is, who names another person to an office, duty or position. The verb "appoint" is the older element. It came into English from Old French "apointer," meaning to arrange or settle, and it ultimately draws on the idea of fitting things together into a fixed arrangement. Its sense of formally naming someone to a post developed from that general notion of settling matters. The suffix "-or" is the same ending found in words such as "editor," "donor" and "tutor," which likewise name the agent of an action. Attaching it to "appoint" produced a term for the party holding the power of appointment, which is why the plural form appears in legal and institutional contexts where several parties share that power.

Synonyms: designators, nominators, selectors, delegators