Definitions for appointment

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appointment ap·point·ment

Spelling: [uh-point-muh nt]

IPA: /əˈpɔɪnt mənt/

Appointment is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 582 anagrams from letters in appointment (aeimnnopptt).

Definitions for appointment

noun

1. a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement:
2. a meeting set for a specific time or place:
3. the act of appointing, designating, or placing in office:
4. an office, position, or the like, to which a person is appointed:
5. Usually, appointments. equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.
6. appointments, accouterments for a soldier or a horse.
7. Manège. a horse-show class in which the contestant need not be a member of a hunt but must wear regulation hunt livery. Compare Corinthian (def 9).
8. Archaic. decree; ordinance.

Origin of appointment

1375-1425; late Middle English apoynt(e)ment Middle French ap(p)ointement. See appoint, -ment

Examples for appointment

He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”

After a while he remembered his appointment with Katherine at three o'clock.

Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.

Sharpton noted that otherwise some of their mutual detractors might suggest that he had played a role in the appointment.

Mr. Roebuck gave notice of the appointment of his committee.

The appointment of the new Ebola czar comes after Republicans began demanding a White House point person on the threat.

The appointment of Klain to lead the effort is giving the public what it wants—but not what it needs.

Thompson came early on the following day, punctual to his appointment.

If we get him this appointment, it will be ample compensation, anyhow.

But the fact is I've got an appointment late this afternoon.