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appointed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //əˈpɔɪntɪd//

Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.

adjective

  1. 1

    Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.

    In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of appointsimple past and past participle of appoint.

    One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

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