appoint

appoint
appoint ap‧point [əˈpɔɪnt] verb [transitive]
1. to choose someone for a job or position:

• The company appointed a new chairman last week.

appoint somebody to do something

• It can appoint a foreign company to manufacture its product under licence.

appoint somebody as something

• They have appointed me as their agent.

appoint somebody something

• Donald Chambers was appointed Chief Executive Officer.

appoint somebody to something

• Only accredited organisations are entitled to appoint delegates to the General Committee.

2. formal to arrange or decide when something will happen or where it will happen:

• The Lord Chancellor can appoint a day for the new rule to come into effect.

• We met at the appointed time.

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appoint UK US /əˈpɔɪnt/ verb [T]
HR to choose someone officially for a job or responsibility: »

They still have not appointed his replacement.

appoint sb sth »

She was appointed Chief Executive about 3 years ago.

appoint sb as sth »

KPMG were appointed as administrators.

appoint sb to do sth »

A commission has just been appointed to investigate fraud claims.

FORMAL to arrange a date or time when a meeting or other event will happen: »

Start the meeting at the appointed time and stick to the agenda.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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  • appoint — [ apwɛ̃ ] n. m. • 1398; de 1. appointer 1 ♦ Complément d une somme en petite monnaie. FAIRE L APPOINT : ajouter le complément en petite monnaie, et par ext. régler exactement la somme due, de sorte que le créancier n ait aucune monnaie à rendre… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • appoint — ap·point /ə pȯint/ vt 1: to name officially to a position appoint ed to the agency s top post appoint ed conservator of the estate 2: to determine the distribution of (property) by exercising the authority granted by a power of appointment …   Law dictionary

  • Appoint — Ap*point ([a^]p*point ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Appointed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Appointing}.] [OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • appoint — APPOINT. s. m. La monnoie qui se donne pour achever une somme qu on ne sauroit parfaire avec les principales espèces employées au paiement. Pour faire mille francs en écus, il faut trois cent trente trois écus, et un appoint de vingt sous. On dit …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • appoint — [ə point′] vt. [ME apointen < OFr apointer, to arrange, make ready < ML appunctuare < L ad, to + punctum, POINT] 1. to set (a date, place, etc.); decide upon officially; decree [to appoint a time for a meeting] 2. to name or select… …   English World dictionary

  • Appoint — (franz., spr. pŭäng; ital. Appunto), zur Vollzahlung eines Geldbetrags dienende Scheidemünzen. Insbesondere heißt A. ein Wechsel, durch den in Verbindung mit einem oder mehreren andern eine Forderung vollkommen ausgeglichen wird. Erhält z. B. A… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Appoint — (frz., spr. pŏäng), ital. Appunto, ein Wechsel, der eine Schuld ausgleicht oder eine bestimmte Summe voll macht (Ausgleichungs , Abschlußwechsel; daher par appoint oder per appunto remittieren oder trassieren, den Rest einer Forderung durch… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • appoint — [v1] assign responsibility; decide accredit, allot, assign, choose, command, commission, decree, delegate, designate, determine, direct, elect, enjoin, establish, finger, fix, install, name, nominate, ordain, select, set, settle, tap; concepts 41 …   New thesaurus

  • Appoint — Ap*point ([a^]p*point ), v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. [1913 Webster] For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Appoint — (fr. [spr. Appoäng], ital. Appunto), auf den Punkt, genau; 1) ein Wechsel, wenn durch denselben eine Schuld genau ausgeglichen wird; dann auch, wenn er als ergänzender od. einzelner Theil einer größeren Summe angesehen wird; so sagt man z.B. 2) A …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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