appointment

n. meeting arranged in advance, date; interview; nomination, designation, naming; appointing a person for an office or position; position or office to which a person has been appointed; appointee, one who has been chosen, chosen official; equipment, furnishings;

Appointment may refer to a number of things, including the following: An appointment is a time reserved for something such as a doctor visit, much like a reservation.An appointment, in government also refers to the assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. This may also happen for an office which is normally elected, but has an unexpected vacancy. A person appointed but not yet in office is a designate.The power of appointment, in law, is the ability of a testator to select another person to dispose of the testator's property.An appointment of clergy, in Christianity, is made by a bishop to a particular ministry setting, particularly in denominations which practice episcopal forms of church government and polity (such as Anglicanism and United Methodist Church.) Typically, a pastor is appointed to a particular church or parish.Appointment is used to describe a system of selecting candidates in which the choice is made by an individual or panel rather than by a poll of the populace in general (election), or through random selection (allotment/sortition) as used to select juries.
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Noun
1. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
(synonym) assignment, designation, naming
(hypernym) decision, determination, conclusion
(hyponym) nomination
2. a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
(synonym) date, engagement
(hypernym) meeting, get together
(hyponym) blind date
(member-meronym) date, escort
3. (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
(synonym) fitting
(hypernym) furnishings
(classification) plural, plural form
4. a person who is appointed to a job or position
(synonym) appointee
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
5. the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed; "he applied for an appointment in the treasury"
(hypernym) occupation, business, job, line of work, line
6. (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment"
(hypernym) disposal, disposition
(classification) law, jurisprudence

(n.)
The state of being appointed to some service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
  

(n.)
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
  

(n.)
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
  

(n.)
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
  

(n.)
Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
  

(n.)
Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
  

(n.)
An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
  

(n.)
A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
  

noun
(a) giving someone a job
on his appointment as head of the clinical department = when he was made head of the clinical department
(b) arrangement to see someone at a particular time; I have an appointment with the doctor or to see the doctor on Tuesday or I have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday; can I make an appointment to see Dr Jones?; I'm very busy - I've got appointments all day