Word.ws English Dictionary

recess appointment

recess appointment noun: the appointment by the President of the United States of a person to an office that normally requires approval of the United States Senate, but who is appointed without such approval because the Senate is in recess.

Noun

recess appointment (plural recess appointments)

  1. (US) The appointment by the President of the United States of a person to an office that normally requires approval of the United States Senate, but who is appointed without such approval because the Senate is in recess.

Forms of recess appointment

pluralrecess appointments

Questions about recess appointment

What does recess appointment mean?
Recess appointment means the appointment by the President of the United States of a person to an office that normally requires approval of the United States Senate, but who is appointed without such approval because the Senate is in recess.
What part of speech is recess appointment?
Recess appointment is a noun.
What is the plural of recess appointment?
The plural of recess appointment is recess appointments.

Words near recess appointment in the dictionary

  1. recertified
  2. recertifies
  3. recertify
  4. recertifying
  5. recess
  6. recess appointment
  7. recess appointments
  8. recessable
  9. recessed
  10. recesser
  11. recessers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recess appointment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “recess appointment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/recess_appointment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.