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Definition of Appoint

Appoint To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. Related Definitions: Agreement, All, Already, An, And, Apart, Arraign, Arrange, Assign, At, Authority, By, Censure, Command, Commendation, Constitute, Contained, Conveyance, Conveyed, Decision, Decree, Designate, Determine, Direct, Disposition, Equip, Equipment, Establish, Estate, Everything, Firmness, Fit, Fix, For, Furnish, In, Limit, Make, Mark, Mutual, Necessary, New, Of, Or, Ordain, Order, Out, Place, Point, Power, Prescribe, Provide, Purpose, Resolve, Said, Set, The, Time, To, Virtue, Way, With

Appoint Quotations We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. Richard V. Allen The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process. John Jay Hooker The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. Bobby R. Inman The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. Richard Lugar

Appoint Translations appoint in Afrikaans is aanstel appoint in Dutch is benoemen, aanstellen appoint in French is appointer, appointez, appointons, appointent appoint in German is erstellen, ernennen, ernennen, bestimmen appoint in Italian is creare, produrre appoint in Latin is constituo, monstro, monstro appoint in Norwegian is utnevne, fastsette appoint in Portuguese is aponte

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