appointment

[ uh-point-muhnt ]
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noun
  1. a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.

  2. a meeting set for a specific time or place: I'm late for my appointment.

  1. the act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: to fill a vacancy by appointment.

  2. an office, position, or the like, to which a person is appointed: He received his appointment as ambassador to Italy.

  3. Usually appointments. equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.

  4. appointments, accouterments for a soldier or a horse.

  5. Manège. a horse-show class in which the contestant need not be a member of a hunt but must wear regulation hunt livery.: Compare Corinthian (def. 9).

  6. Archaic. decree; ordinance.

Origin of appointment

1
1375–1425; late Middle English apoynt(e)ment<Middle French ap(p)ointement.See appoint, -ment

synonym study For appointment

4. Appointment, office, post, station all refer to kinds of duty or employment. Appointment refers to a position to which one is assigned, as by a high government official. Office often suggests a position of trust or authority. Post is usually restricted to a military or other public position, as of a diplomat, although it may also refer to a teaching position. Both post and station may refer to the place where a person is assigned to work.

Other words for appointment

Other words from appointment

  • pro·ap·point·ment, adjective
  • re·ap·point·ment, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for appointment

appointment

/ (əˈpɔɪntmənt) /


noun
  1. an arrangement to meet a person or be at a place at a certain time

  2. the act of placing in a job or position

  1. the person who receives such a job or position

  2. the job or position to which such a person is appointed

  3. (usually plural) a fixture or fitting

  4. property law nomination to an interest in property under a deed or will

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Other Idioms and Phrases with appointment

appointment

see make an appointment.

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