appointments
n.
fittings, equipment, furnishings
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
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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appointment
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
appointments
Synonyms and related words:
accessories, accouterments, appanages, apparatus, appendages, appliances, appurtenances, armament, belongings, choses, choses in action, choses in possession, choses local, choses transitory, conveniences, duffel, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fittings, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, gear, impedimenta, installations, kit, machinery, material things, materiel, movables, munition, munitions, outfit, paraphernalia, perquisites, personal effects, plant, plumbing, rig, rigging, stock-in-trade, tackle, things, trappings, utensils,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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