appointment

Noun

appointment (plural appointments)

1. The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust.
   • His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.

   Synonyms:

   designation, tenure

2. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed.
   • the appointment of treasurer

   Synonyms:

   tenure, formal

3. A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
4. An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
   • They made an appointment to meet at six.
   • I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment.
5. A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution.
   • to submit to the divine appointments
   • According to the appointment of the priests.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezra 6:9
6. 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.
7. The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
8. (in plural) Equipment, furniture.
   • […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […]1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
   • The appointments of a gentleman's dressing-room are similar in most respects to those of the lady's dressing-room, the differences being in trifling matters.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia
9. (US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
   • to have an appointment
10. (obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.