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self-appoint

self-appoint verb: to appoint by oneself or at one's own initiative.

Verb

self-appoint (third-person singular simple present self-appoints, present participle self-appointing, simple past and past participle self-appointed)

  1. (transitive) To appoint by oneself or at one's own initiative.

Forms of self-appoint

third-person singular presentself-appoints
present participleself-appointing
past participleself-appointed
pastself-appointed

Words formed from self-appoint

Questions about self-appoint

What does self-appoint mean?
Self-appoint means to appoint by oneself or at one's own initiative.
What part of speech is self-appoint?
Self-appoint is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-appoint?
The past tense of self-appoint is self-appointed.

Words near self-appoint in the dictionary

  1. self-antigen
  2. self-antigens
  3. self-antonym
  4. self-applause
  5. self-applauses
  6. self-appoint
  7. self-appointed
  8. self-appointing
  9. self-appointment
  10. self-appoints
  11. self-archive

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