appointment

noun

1. 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.

2. 2

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

   the appointment of treasurer

3. 3

   A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.

4. 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.

   Love's right outside our door / It made an appointment with our hearts / We tell ourselves there's time / But we never seem to get around to it

5. 5

   A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution.

   to submit to the divine appointments

   According to the appointment of the priests.

6. 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. 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. 8

   Equipment, furniture.

   […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […]

   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.

   The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.

9. 9

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

   to have an appointment

10. 10

    obsoleteThe allowance paid to a public officer.

Forms

plural

appointments