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 the night of 6 June.
keep...appointments
▪ patients who fail to keep their appointments
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dental
▪ She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she's been a little bit nervous about it.
▪ Nobody gets injured, but some one may be called to supper or a dental appointment and require a substitute.
▪ I was already forty-five minutes late for a dental appointment and had plenty of time to reflect upon the day.
▪ So if you dash to work unfed, you're more likely to forget that vital mid-morning phone call or dental appointment.
▪ She's moaning about all your dental appointments, saying it would be better if you could go after school.
▪ But you haven't had any dental appointments, have you?
judicial
▪ However, the better judicial and quasi-judicial appointments generally go to barristers.
▪ He talked about his Kansas upbringing and touched on issues like judicial appointments, foreign policy, education reform and drug use.
▪ Hopton received no further judicial or administrative appointments from the king.
▪ Most were routed into judicial rather than revenue appointments.
▪ By the time a barrister is considered for judicial appointment, the dossier will contain considerable information about him or her.
▪ The number of such judicial appointments for overseas territories is considerable.
▪ In the 1990s some of these will move into the ranks of successful barristers from whom judicial appointments are made.
▪ The party membership of judges has always been an important factor in judicial appointments and promotions.
new
▪ David will leave Emap and take up his new appointment at the end of July.
▪ Three new appointments were announced to the Council of Ministers: Maj.-Gen.
▪ The other new appointments were Guillermo Rolla Pimentel - Health.
▪ A firm may also be restricted for a period from accepting certain types of new appointments without the committee's consent.
▪ Other new appointments made in response to the changing balance in international relations between economic and political considerations were less significant.
▪ Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack, who first met several years ago on a training ship.
▪ When orders came to a new appointment there were regrets all round.
▪ However, under the 1988 Education Reform Act no new tenured appointments can be made.
senior
▪ Second, the old-boy network offered a time-honoured alternative to advertising, particularly for the most senior appointments.
▪ Ron Price is to join as a non-executive this month and a further senior marketing appointment is to be announced this month.
▪ There is, however, some potential for abuse in the system, with senior appointments being made by the Prime Minister.
▪ Three senior civil service appointments were also announced yesterday.
▪ A two-year course in a Soviet General Staff academy appears to be mandatory for those taking up senior appointment.
▪ Even if it worked for senior house officer appointments it would not work for registrar appointments.
■ NOUN
book
▪ Sullivan threw open the appointment book and checked the date.
▪ You won't find it in the appointments book.
outpatient
▪ After discharge, patients should attend weekly outpatient appointments, moving to fortnightly or monthly attendances as appropriate.
▪ Patients allocated to normal care were given outpatient appointments to see a psychiatrist or social worker, but non-attenders were not pursued.
▪ In addition 60,000 operations had been cancelled or postponed and 75,000 outpatient appointments had been cancelled.
▪ The wait for an outpatient appointment is invisible.
▪ Much of the debate has related to reducing waiting times for surgery rather than for outpatient appointments.
▪ We report the potential dangers of long waiting times for a routine outpatient appointment at a urology clinic.
▪ It is important for hospital-based therapists to realize that many self-poisoning patients fail to keep outpatient appointments.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Moreover, the covenant went on to restrict the defendant's ability to accept any professional appointment.
▪ First, he quit a post on the Texas Railroad Commission to accept an appointment from then-Gov.
▪ Although reluctant, Davis accepted the appointment and worked for the inspectorate from 1878 to 1884.
▪ There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.
▪ Yet it flows naturally from the choice of the person and begins the moment that they accept the offer of appointment.
announce
▪ In October Museveni announced the appointment of a commission to investigate ways of ending the rebellion in the east.
▪ In a first for Brown, one of his announced choices rejected the appointment.
▪ Emap will immediately commence the search for a new Finance Director and will announce an appointment in due course.
▪ Murrells concluded by announcing the appointment of three new headmen chosen by himself and asking if there were any complaints.
▪ He did several newspaper interviews Friday, his first extended on-the-record sessions since Clinton announced his appointment in November.
▪ Albright may announce additional appointments at her first State Department news conference Friday afternoon.
approve
▪ The Majlis must approve the appointment of all members of the Council of Ministers.
▪ The board selects the president and approves the appointment of all corporate officers.
▪ He had the ultimate power to approve the appointment of generals, admirals and prime ministers.
▪ Here again the Secretary of State must approve the appointment of the chairman and members.
▪ They generally approve budgets and the appointments of department heads and commission members submitted by the chief executive.
arrange
▪ When you receive the inspection voucher simply telephone the most convenient centre arrange an appointment at any time between 9.00a.m. -6.00p.m.
▪ I have already arranged an appointment with Senator Simon.
▪ I've already phoned a couple of agents to arrange appointments to view.
▪ So I arranged an appointment with this therapist-that they used to make me go see?
▪ Your consultant will be happy to contact you and arrange an appointment at a time to suit you.
▪ I was unable to reach the president so l spoke with her assistant so l could arrange an appointment.
▪ Having sifted through the estate agents' details, arrange appointments to view as many properties as possible.
▪ Since the president was unavailable, I spoke with her assistant to arrange an appointment. unnecessary repetition.
cancel
▪ The fact is, I cancelled the appointment so now I have a morning at home to myself.
▪ After 1 have one of those, I just get my secretary to cancel my appointments and drive me home.
▪ Two days earlier I'd cancelled an appointment with a psychic healer, thinking perhaps I should leave well enough alone.
▪ Then he hung up immediately, phoned his office and cancelled his afternoon appointments.
▪ He cancelled his appointments for a week, and stayed in the Loire, spending each day with the boy.
▪ She had cancelled all other appointments.
confirm
▪ The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position.
▪ Sundram then must be confirmed to the lifetime appointment by the full Senate.
▪ Other parishioners successfully petitioned the House of Lords in 1643 to confirm his appointment.
▪ Please send us a copy of your letter confirming the appointment.
▪ A two-chamber federal parliament would confirm these appointments.
▪ On the last day of the month the Company confirmed his appointment, subject only to his presenting himself in London.
follow
▪ Robins is now back in the warren, however, following the appointment of a fresh management team in June 1991.
▪ Preliminary work began last September following the appointment of two countryside officers who are employed full time on the project.
▪ Twenty six patients were given follow up appointments, either to assess treatment or to give the results of histological examination.
▪ Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.
▪ Inevitably, follow up appointments were given to some extent on a subjective basis according to the laser endoscopist's previous experience.
hold
▪ One had even held an appointment under Heath as minister of state for Employment.
▪ Despite holding political appointments, in all matters of criminal prosecution they must act independently of the interests of government.
include
▪ These activities would include the appointment of case managers for individuals such as the vulnerable elderly when it was appropriate. 2.
▪ Future plans for the Orangerie include the appointment of a professional director with financial acumen and specific experience of the art business.
▪ Rice says this philosophy should be extended to include the appointment of care managers.
▪ The inquiry's 72 recommendations included the appointment of a children's commissioner to oversee complaints.
▪ The dispute broadened to include the appointment of judges after the retirement of several members of the Supreme Court.
keep
▪ In the distance he could hear a woman's heels catching on the cobbles as she ran to keep an appointment.
▪ Charlie Northrup drove his car to the Biondo farm at dusk to keep his appointment with Jack.
▪ We continued talking for well over an hour, duly keeping the next appointment waiting.
▪ The idea of keeping appointments was an alien concept.
▪ But if you keep your on-line appointments diary up to date, a calendar on the network can compare everyone's schedules.
▪ Access to care is controlled by the client, who can choose to keep or not keep appointments.
▪ She drew a deep breath, then went out to keep her appointment.
make
▪ Will the court prevent an appointing authority from making an appointment because one of the parties objects to the reference proceeding?
▪ When Macey wanted to see her husband, she practically had to make an appointment.
▪ Unfortunately, the 1989 will was drafted and signed without making any appointment of the income from her father's estate.
▪ They made an appointment and while walking toward the building, stopped to sit on a bench.
▪ Particular emphasis on socially oriented topics, such as receiving visitors, making visits, appointments, entertainment and business travel.
▪ That makes Frosh's appointment all the more important.
▪ There may, for example, be circumstances which make such an appointment undesirable.
▪ They tell you that you have to make a new appointment.
miss
▪ He remembered he had missed their appointment last night.
▪ When she missed an appointment, Meyer reported the fetus as a child in need of protection.
▪ The most deprived parents-those overwhelmed by financial anxieties-are the ones most likely to miss appointments with officials.
▪ Ashamed of not sticking to their diets, they would miss appointments and fake their food diaries.
▪ Back home. he'd missed more appointments.
▪ However, it was not required as Miss Green resigned her appointment as District tutor-organiser in December 1939.
▪ He never missed my medical appointments either.
▪ He had missed his appointment with Lorton.
receive
▪ Ickes left the White House after the election when he did not receive a high-level appointment.
▪ Lords of Appeal in Ordinary - Law Lords - receive life baronies on appointment unless they are already ennobled.
▪ He received the appointment, but Parker himself was never sworn into office.
▪ With the death of Coleman, the way was cleared for Edinburgh-qualified veterinary surgeons to receive regimental appointments.
▪ The 31-year-old job hunter was delighted when she received an appointment for a job interview.
▪ After Preston's death he received appointment as one of the regular justices of the newly established assize circuits in 1274.
schedule
▪ City spokesman Kelvin McNeill said police plan to schedule an appointment with the parents, each of whom has a separate attorney.
▪ You should schedule an appointment with your doctor to check this out.
▪ They say they make more phone calls, schedule quicker appointments, do more comprehensive screenings and even make occasional house calls.
▪ Now and then, there is the need to ask a brief question schedule an appointment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a doctor's appointment
▪ a five o'clock appointment
▪ Barron recently received an appointment as vice chairman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By appointment only, to serious collectors and decorators.
▪ His first interview recently was at 8 a. m. and his appointments were scheduled back to back until midnight.
▪ His original appointment this year was also as manager.
▪ It was expected to lead to the appointment of an impartial body to determine responsibility for the conflict.
▪ Judicial appointments have the potential to matter more than legislative recommendations.
▪ The appointment of supporters on the Cabinet committee dealing with economic strategy has already been noted.