appointment
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- (America, RP) IPA: /əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/
- (Southern US) IPA: /əˈpɔɪnt.mɪnt/, [əˈpʰɔɪ̯nʔmɪnʔ], [əˈpʰɔɪ̯̃ʔmɪnʔ]
appointment (plural appointments)
- The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
- Synonyms: designation
- His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
- The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
- the appointment of treasurer
- Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
- They made an appointment to meet at six.
- I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment.
- (religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
- to submit to the divine appointments
- (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.
- (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- (in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:
- […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […]
- (US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
- to have an appointment
- (obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.
- (antonym(s) of “act of appointing”): dismissal
- French: nomination
- German: Ernennung, Berufung
- Portuguese: nomeação, designação
- Russian: назначе́ние
- Spanish: nombramiento
- Portuguese: designação
- Spanish: cita
- Portuguese: compromisso
- Russian: договорённость
- Spanish: compromiso
- French: rendez-vous, (France) rencard
- German: Termin, Verabredung
- Italian: appuntamento
- Portuguese: consulta, compromisso, entrevista, rendez-vous
- Russian: (no exact term exists) встре́ча
- Spanish: cita
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