transition team
Power transfer organizers
A transition team is the group assembled by an incoming political leader—typically a president-elect—to prepare for assuming power.
The team handles logistics, vets candidates for key positions, and coordinates with the outgoing administration: The transition team began interviewing potential cabinet members the day after the election.
The term extends to any group managing a handover of leadership in organizations.
- handoverTransfer of control
- peaceful transferNonviolent change of power
- incomingMoving toward arrival
- outgoingSociable and unreserved
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
West Wing · briefing · cabinet · cabinet picks · appointees · vetting · background check · staff · advisors · inauguration · day one · president-elect · changeover · succession · nominees · personnel · interim · lame duck
- power shiftsregime change, coup d'etat, overthrow, abdication, inauguration
- governorsstate governor, viceroy, governor's office, lieutenant governor, proconsul
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
- committeescommittee, budget committee, ethics committee, standing committee, finance committee
- provisional governmentsprovisional government, interim government, caretaker government, interim president, interim leader
transition, team, transit, transient, transitory, transitional, transitionally, transitions, transiting