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What (who) is appointment - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Appoint; Appointed; Appointments; Political appointment; Appointment (disambiguation)
appointment
n.
agreement to meet
1) to keep; make an appointment with
2) to break; cancel an appointment
3) by appointment (he will see you by appointment)
4) an appointment to + inf. (she had an appointment to see the dean)
selection
5) an appointment to (they announced her appointment to the commission)
6) an appointment as (an appointment as professor)
position
7) to hold; receive an appointment
8) a permanent; temporary appointment
designation
9) by appointment to Her Majesty
appointment
¦ noun
1. an arrangement to meet at a particular time and place.
2. a job or position.
the action or process of appointing someone.
3. (appointments) furniture or fittings.
Phrases
by appointment (to the Queen) (in the UK) selling goods or services to the Queen.
appointment
(appointments)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
...his appointment as foreign minister in 1985.
N-VAR: usu with poss, oft N to/as n
2.
An appointment is a job or position of responsibility.
Mr Fay is to take up an appointment as a researcher with the Royal Society.
= post
N-COUNT
3.
If you have an appointment with someone, you have arranged to see them at a particular time, usually in connection with their work or for a serious purpose.
She has an appointment with her accountant...
...a dental appointment.
N-COUNT: oft N with n, N to-inf
4.
If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
Viewing is by appointment only.
PHRASE
Examples of use of appointment
1. Confirming the illegal appointment, he said Roshan had ignored rules in appointment.
2. But Ganot is not the first Dichter appointment or would–be appointment in a similar situation.
3. The appointment, which is expected during a White House ceremony this morning, would constitute a so–called recess appointment.
4. "This is why I demanded blood and urine tests and a second appointment within 48 hours of her first appointment.
5. The appointment is subject to parliamentary approval.