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ap⋅point⋅ment
[uh-point-muh
nt] 
–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. | an office, position, or the like, to which a person is appointed: He received his appointment as ambassador to Italy. |
| 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. |
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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Appointment
Ap*point"ment\, n. [Cf. F. appointement.]1. 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. 2. The state of being appointed to som? service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. 3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. 4. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. According to the appointment of the priests. --Ezra vi. 9. 5. (Law) 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. 6. 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. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. --Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appointment, that thou liest. --Beau. & Fl. 7. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. [Obs.] An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary. --Chesterfield. 8. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.] Syn: Designation; command; order; direction; establishment; equipment.
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Language Translation for : appointment
Spanish:
cita, compromiso, hora,
German:
die Verabredung; der Termin,
Japanese:
面会の約束
appointment
see make an appointment.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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