Appointment

What do we mean by appointment?

The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position. noun

The office or position to which one has been appointed. noun

An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place. synonym: engagement. noun

Furnishings, fittings, or equipment. noun

The act of directing the disposition of property by virtue of a power granted for this purpose. noun

The act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men. noun

An office held by a person appointed: as, a high appointment in the civil service. noun

Stipulation; engagement; assignation; the act of fixing by mutual agreement: as, an appointment to meet at six o'clock. noun

Anything fixed or established; established order or constitution; decree; ordinance; direction; order; command: as, it is our duty to submit to the divine appointments. noun

Equipment, furniture, outfit, as for a ship, an army, a soldier, etc.; whatever is appointed for use and management; accoutrements: in this sense generally used in the plural. noun

The act of preparing; preparation. noun

An allowance to a person; a salary or pension, as of a public officer: properly used only in the plural. noun

In law, the act of appointing or designating the beneficiary who is to take the use of an estate created under a preceding deed or will. See appoint, 5. noun

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust. noun

The state of being appointed to som� service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer. noun

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement. noun

Decree; direction; established order or constitution. noun

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. noun

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. noun

The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust

The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.

An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.

Decree; direction; established order or constitution.

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.

The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

(now in the plural) Equipment, furniture.

A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.

The allowance paid to a public officer.

Words that are spelled similarly to appointment:
appointment, anointment, appointments, reappointment.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word appointment:
brevet, archdeacon, confirmation, brigadier, commissioner, recommendation, ambassador, bench, chancellor, archbishop, counsel, judges, conductor, judicial, senate, resignation, bishop, administrator, lecturer, cabinet, deputy, governor, chief, judge, interim, secretary, appointed, rank, superintendent, confirmed, supreme, minister, professor, resigned, chair, tenure, assistant, dean, justice, successor, attorney, prime, associate, commanding, appeals, fill, court, manager, chairman, officer, lieutenant, retirement, pope.

Words that rhyme with appointment:
disappointment, ointment, reappointment, fly in the ointment, mercurial ointment, zinc ointment.

Adjectives that are often used to describe appointment:
first, new, such, next, divine, official, political, last, permanent, important, initial, temporary, second, special, dental, original, joint, regular, formal, presidential, immediate, academic, recent, previous, judicial, direct, royal, subsequent, year, diplomatic, time, military, civil, medical, final, definite, actual, federal, interim, prior, lucrative, executive, urgent, ministerial, annual, latter, gubernatorial, provisional, senior, fresh, arbitrary, honorary, consular, outpatient, minute, imperial, administrative, weekly, minor, routine, suitable, professorial, dual.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective appointment:
form, scheduling, book, systems, cards, books, times, power, time, procedures, clerk, papers, division, date, system, calls, card, letter, control, letters, schedules, schedule, calendars, planning, reminders, powers, appointments, policies, object, calendar, list, procedure, limits, committees, process, election, scheduler, officers, objects, start, files, committee, section, bureaus, table, decisions, members, service, proceedings, order, bureau, notice, express, orders, sec, clerks, brokers, box, function, workers, continued, the, office, records, promotion, tab, diaries, secretaries, secretary, software, partisanship, breaking, dates, sequence, length, ipm, failures, menu, equity, subject, bureaux, message, sheet, lists, dept, slips.

Words that sound like appointment:
appointment, appointments, apartment, abatement, anointment, abutment, abetment, appendant, reappointment, abonnement, attaintment, opponent, abundant, appointed, appeasement, appeasment, abondant, impoundment, abodement, abortment, ointment, lentement, absentment, appointing, abandoned, disappointment, assignment, amendment, atonement, apartments, attainment, repentant, deportment, attunement, abashment, opinioned, debatement, obtainment, abatements, abutments, appointment book, supportment, upington.