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ap⋅point⋅ment

  [uh-point-muhnt]
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–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.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME apoynt(e)ment < MF ap(p)ointement. See appoint, -ment

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.
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ap·point·ment   (ə-point'mənt)   
n.  

    1. The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.

    2. The office or position to which one has been appointed.

  2. An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place. See Synonyms at engagement.

  3. appointments Furnishings, fittings, or equipment.

  4. Law The act of directing the disposition of property by virtue of a power granted for this purpose.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Idioms & Phrases

appointment

see make an appointment.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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