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.

OTHER WORDS FOR appointment

1, 2 assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date.

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Origin of appointment

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 FROM appointment

pro·ap·point·ment, adjectivere·ap·point·ment, noun

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How to use appointment in a sentence

Diversity also fell, with women accounting for only 3% of all new CEO appointments, compared to 12% in the five months leading up to the pandemic.
Who becomes CEO in a pandemic?|Alan Murray|November 20, 2020|Fortune
One man wears his mask to his once-a-week medical appointments.
A 28-year-old ‘nerd’ in Baltimore invented a new type of mask, and tapped into the strangeness of this 2020 holiday season|Theresa Vargas|November 18, 2020|Washington Post
Elin Jones, a spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County Health Department, said health officials decided Tuesday to test only those with appointments because cars were backing up at a drive-through testing operation.
As holidays approach, wait times rise for coronavirus tests amid record spike in cases|Meagan Flynn, Michael Brice-Saddler, Julie Zauzmer, Rachel Chason|November 18, 2020|Washington Post
Agreeing to his father’s suggestion, Pauli contacted Jung and made an appointment.
The Synchronicity of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung - Issue 93: Forerunners|Paul Halpern|November 18, 2020|Nautilus

By all accounts, it’s an appointment that has been a long time coming.
Kim Ng breaks a gender barrier in baseball|ehinchliffe|November 16, 2020|Fortune
Moulitsas, for his part, has declared himself skeptical but not angry at the Gates reappointment.
Hunting the Obama Haters|John Avlon|December 5, 2008|DAILY BEAST
This naturally ended in the reappointment of the duke of York to his charge of protector.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam
Reappointment was generally an object of keen desire to these officials.
Japan|Various
This was contrary to instructions from the War Department, which forbade the reappointment of an officer who had been removed.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama|Walter L. Fleming
He regretted he was unable to recommend the reappointment of an officer who had resigned at such short notice.
The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon|Jos Maria Gordon
The reappointment of the old warden would be regarded by all the world as a matter of course.
Barchester Towers|Anthony Trollope

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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Origin of appointment

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