Appoint

Word APPOINT
Character 7
Hyphenation ap point
Pronunciations /əˈpɔɪnt/

Definitions and meanings of "Appoint"

What do we mean by appoint?

To select or designate to fill an office or a position. transitive verb

To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement. transitive verb

To furnish; equip. transitive verb

To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed. transitive verb

. To make fast or firm; found; establish; secure.

To constitute, ordain, or fix by decree, order, or decision; decree; command; prescribe.

To allot, set apart, or designate; nominate or authoritatively assign, as for a use, or to a post or office.

To settle; fix, name, or determine by authority or upon agreement: as, they appointed a time and place for the meeting.

In law, to fix the destination of (property) by designating a person or persons to take the use of an estate created by a preceding deed or will, conferring on the appointor the power so to do.

. To point at by way of censure; arraign: as, “appoint not heavenly disposition,” Milton, S. A., 1. 373.

To provide with what is requisite; equip.

To agree upon; decide upon or settle definitely.

Synonyms To prescribe, establish, direct. To assign, destine, constitute, create. To furnish, supply.

To ordain; resolve; determine.

In law, to exercise a power of appointment.

To ordain; to determine; to arrange. intransitive verb

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. transitive verb

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. transitive verb

To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. transitive verb

To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. transitive verb

To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.

To name (someone to a post or role).

To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).

To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).

To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.

To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Appoint

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The word "appoint" in example sentences

The task of those with the power to appoint is to choose those who, because of their public or nonpublic personality, are less likely to become seriously corrupt than the average applicant. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Do you think Hillary wants to sit by and watch McCain appoint Supreme Court Justices, block universal health care, send more money to Iraq in exchange for body bags? ❋ Unknown (2008)

And just to remind you, watch your McCain appoint supreme court justices who would completely erode what is left of women's reproductive rights. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Under these circumstances, the person who was elected has not only a right but a responsibility to help appoint someone who they know shares their views and whom they can trust to further the platform they were elected on — especially if the person with the power to appoint is under investigation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But his critics point to the retreat from media freedoms and the recent decision to have the Kremlin appoint regional governors instead of having them popularly elected as they were in Yeltsin's time, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Well, I think they initially accepted some of the ideas, such as having the Kremlin appoint governors even though that might appear to be only tangentially related to the Beslan disaster. ❋ Unknown (2005)

One measure was to end the popular election of regional governors and have the Kremlin appoint them instead, subject to confirmation by regional legislatures. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word appoint is not the most appropriate word for describing the result of a popular election. ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1862)

Why didn’t the admin appoint Dawn Johnsen over the holidays? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's good reasons to oppose McCain, but this isn't one of them, and may even be a stroke in his favor to the extent that it bears on his views of the Constitution, which in turn bears on the kind of judges he would appoint, which is of course the whole ball game. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The original word appoint has the force of a covenant or compact, and means that it should be surely or certainly done, or that he pledged himself to do it. ❋ Unknown (1949)

But these men know, and it is right that you, for whose sake if not by whose command the thing was done, should mete out its reward, and that the blood of him whom you appoint, which is spilt for you, should be on your and no other head. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

I therefore in my own name appoint you to the commandery of our manor of Maltby in Lincolnshire, which, having fallen vacant, is in my gift; and I release it from the usual payment of the first year's revenue. ❋ Unknown (1867)

There were some personnel issues on several of the boards we appoint, which is probably the single biggest reason I lost sleep, because some of the attacks became very personal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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