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A person who is appointed to a job or position
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appointment
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust. 2 The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position. 3 stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "an agreement," also "a fixing of a date for official business," from Middle French apointement , from apointer (see appoint ). Meaning "act of placing in office" is attested from 1650s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: assignment , designation , naming ] a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date" [syn: ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appointment \Ap*point"ment\, n. [Cf. F. appointement.] The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. The state of being appointed to som? service or office; an office ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an appointment card (= one with your appointments on ) ▪ The dentist gave me a new appointment card. appointment book confirm a booking/reservation/appointment ▪ I am writing to confirm a booking for a single room for ...
Usage examples of appointment.
An appointment was made to see him again, for the anatomist valued knowledge above all other things.
After making appointments, writing schedules, letters, and notes that would allow our household to continue in its predictable harmony, she marked the mirror in her hotel room with an annulling X in bright red lipstick, paid her bill with cash, flirted with, the doorman, and gave a large tip to the boy who brought her the car.
As we have said that this lady had a great affection for Jones, and as it must have appeared that she really had so, the reader may perhaps wonder at the first failure of her appointment, as she apprehended him to be confined by sickness, a season when friendship seems most to require such visits.
Chapter 2: When the inspector arrived late on Monday next, having sent a messenger to beg off the dinner appointment, his mistress met him in the foyer herself.
Anyway, this was more important than ballooning so Stafford picked up the telephone to cancel the appointment with Hunt.
Captain Bannock, he was also going to be late for their appointment in the gym.
She found, to her surprise, that she was just in time: William, now acting as valet, told her Mr Basset was leaving in ten minutes for an appointment.
Without a care for the blatancy of his assessing perusal, Silas took in the rich appointments of the keep.
For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.
He faced unwillingly the whole frightening extent of the plundering of the brewery and approved of the appointment of Margaret Morden as captain of the lifeboat to save the wreck.
It just happened that it was the very day on which the appointment of the inspectorship was to be brought before the senate.
I kept the appointment and we spent the whole of the day in close conference, asking of the oracle concerning her being brought to bed, how she was to make her will, and how she should contrive to escape poverty in her regenerated shape.
There were some who, watching his handling of a considerable body of horse at the great Salisbury manoeuvres in 1898, conceived the highest opinion of his capacity, and it was due to the strong support of General Buller, who had commanded in these peaceful operations, that French received his appointment for South Africa.
Constitution was that the power of removal was always an incident of the power of appointment, and that therefore in the case of officers appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate the removal power was exercisable by the President only with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Internet, looked up the Services columns and made appointments for the following day for them all to see a hypnotist and a medium, chosen more or less at random.