appointment

[uh-point-muhnt]

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.

Origin of appointment

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

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

Synonyms for appointment

1, 2. assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date.

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 reappointment

Historical Examples of reappointment

Granvelle recommended a reappointment of the Duchess Margaret.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume III.(of III) 1574-84
John Lothrop Motley
The term is five years, without eligibility to reappointment.
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
And his release was followed by reappointment to his old command.
Lords of the World
Alfred John Church
Reappointment was generally an object of keen desire to these officials.
Japan
Various
To make the reappointment himself, however, was too humiliating.
The Day of the Confederacy
Nathaniel W. Stephenson

British Dictionary definitions for reappointment

appointment

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 reappointment

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 reappointment

appointment

see make an appointment.