appointment
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mənt noun
1.
a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
2.
a meeting set for a specific time or place: I'm late for my appointment.
3.
the act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: to fill a vacancy by appointment.
4.
5.
Usually, appointments. equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.
6.
appointments, accouterments for a soldier or a horse.
7.
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 ).
8.
Archaic. decree; ordinance.
Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English apoynt(e)ment < Middle French ap(p)ointement. See appoint, -ment
1375–1425; late Middle English apoynt(e)ment < Middle French ap(p)ointement. See appoint, -ment
Related forms
pro·ap·point·ment, adjective
re·ap·point·ment, noun
Synonyms
1, 2. assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date. 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.
1, 2. assignation, rendezvous, tryst, date. 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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| —n | |
| 1. | an arrangement to meet a person or be at a place at a certain time |
| 2. | the act of placing in a job or position |
| 3. | the person who receives such a job or position |
| 4. | the job or position to which such a person is appointed |
| 5. | (usually plural) a fixture or fitting |
| 6. | property law nomination to an interest in property under a deed or will |
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Word Origin & History
appointment
early 15c., "a pointing out," from O.Fr. apointment, from apointer (see appoint). Meaning "an arrangement to meet" is recorded from 1520s. Meaning "act of placing in office" is attested from 1650s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The position is a full-time appointment with an initial and renewable term of three years.
Getting an appointment is not always easy and is generally for days in the future.
His appointment was inevitably greeted with rapture on the right.
Arriving empty-handed without an appointment is the height of rudeness, he grumbles.
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