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Definition of Appointment

Appointment 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. The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six. Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments. 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. 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. An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. Related Definitions: Accouterments, Act, Agreement, Allowance, Also, An, And, Appointed, Appointing, Appointment, Army, Arrangement, As, At, Being, By, College, Constitution, Decree, Designating, Designation, Direction, Discharge, Divine, Engagement, Enjoy, Equipment, Erred, Established, Estate, Exercise, Exhibition, Fixing, For, Furniture, Have, He, Hence, Hold, Honorary, In, Instrument, Is, Made, Management, Meet, Meeting, Men, Military, Mutual, Of, Office, Officer, One, Only, Or, Oration, Order, Other, Outfit, Part, Perquisite, Person, Plural, Position, Power, Properly, Property, Public, Service, Ship, Six, Specific, State, Station, Stipulation, Submit, The, They, To, Treasurer, Trust, Under, Use, Whatever, Which

Appointment Quotations Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases. Sandra Day O'Connor Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. Charles Babbage My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move. Sandra Day O'Connor

Appointment Translations appointment in Afrikaans is afspraak, aanstelling appointment in Dutch is benoeming, aanstelling appointment in French is rendez-vous appointment in German is Bestimmung, Ernennung appointment in Italian is lavorazione

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