appointment

[ uh-point-muhnt ]

/ əˈpɔɪnt mənt /

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noun

a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.

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

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

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

Usually appointments. equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.

appointments, accouterments for a soldier or a horse.

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).

Archaic. decree; ordinance.

Nearby words

appoggiatura, appoint, appointed, appointee, appointive, appointment, appointment in samarra, appointment television, appointment viewing, appointor, appomattox

Origin of appointment

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

SYNONYMS FOR appointment

1, 2 assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date.

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Related formspro·ap·point·ment, adjectivere·ap·point·ment, noun

Synonym study

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.

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Examples from the Web for appointment

He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”
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Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.
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Sharpton noted that otherwise some of their mutual detractors might suggest that he had played a role in the appointment.
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The appointment of Klain to lead the effort is giving the public what it wants—but not what it needs.
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On Friday, the president announced the appointment of political and policy operative Ron Klain as “Ebola czar.”
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He had an appointment with the doctor—he had so little time.
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But French literature was certainly the gainer by the appointment of Bossuet to the post of tutor to the Prince.
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Exactly the fourteen hundred thousand francs—the price of my appointment.
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Accordingly when this appointment was performed, she recovered her senses as well as before.
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That appointment proved in after-time a rather questionable boon to the family.
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British Dictionary definitions for appointment

appointment

/ (əˈpɔɪntmənt) /

noun

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

the act of placing in a job or position

the person who receives such a job or position

the job or position to which such a person is appointed

(usually plural) a fixture or fitting

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

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Word Origin and History for appointment

appointment

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.

Idioms and Phrases with appointment

appointment

see make an appointment.

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appointment

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