An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
APPOINTEE
appointee, appointment
(noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position
appointee
(noun) an official who is appointed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
appointee (plural appointees)
a person who is appointed
Source: Wiktionary
Ap*point*ee", n. Etym: [F. appointé, p. p. of appointer. See Appoint, v. t.]
1. A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).
2. (law)
Definition: A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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