appointment
[uh-point-muhnt]
- 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.
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Origin of appointment
Synonyms
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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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interview, assignment, consultation, date, invitation, selection, designation, choice, election, approval, nomination, certification, post, appointee, nominee, office, assignation, engagement, errand, trystExamples from the Web for appointment
Contemporary Examples
He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”
Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.
Sharpton noted that otherwise some of their mutual detractors might suggest that he had played a role in the appointment.
The appointment of Klain to lead the effort is giving the public what it wants—but not what it needs.
The appointment of the new Ebola czar comes after Republicans began demanding a White House point person on the threat.
Historical Examples
Thompson came early on the following day, punctual to his appointment.
But the fact is I've got an appointment late this afternoon.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
If we get him this appointment, it will be ample compensation, anyhow.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
Mr. Roebuck gave notice of the appointment of his committee.
The Grand Old ManRichard B. Cook
After a while he remembered his appointment with Katherine at three o'clock.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
appointment
- 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
n.
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.
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Idioms and Phrases with appointment
appointment
see make an appointment.
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