appoint
verb (used with object)
to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate.
appointable
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a word derived from
appoint.
Example Sentences
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He is the government's preferred candidate for the post, and in remarks published on Friday the committee agreed he was "appointable as chair".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
She had been repeatedly and publicly encouraged to reapply for her role and was found to be appointable by the appointments process.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2023
She later learned she was an appointable candidate and says she was urged to apply again in a new appointment process and to stay in post until the end of the year.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2022
"The government wouldn't propose someone who wasn't acceptable or appointable to the Palace," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2016
The Daika reforms, copying the Tang polity called into existence a cabinet and a body of officials appointable or removable by the sovereign at will, each entrusted with definite functions.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
