Appoint

Definition: Appoint

Appoint

Verb

1. Charge with a task or function; "appoint someone president"; "nominate a committee".

2. Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance".

3. Furnish; "a beautifully appointed house".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "appoint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Law

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Synonyms: Appoint

Apportionment

Partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.

Command

Prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task, impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.

Commission

Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to.

Crosswords: Appoint

French (appendix, complement, supplement).

The only mistake I ever made was to appoint a sniveling little weasel like you Secretary of Defense. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich)

Every now and then a man on a white horse rides by, and we appoint him to be our personal god for the duration. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

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Books

• I, William Shakespeare Do Appoint Thomas Russell, Esquire (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Appoint (reference)

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An agreement has been reached in principle to appoint Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith director of ... Credit: NASA.

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We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well. (reference)

The people alone can appoint the form of the common-wealth, which is by constituting the legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 2: The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, (See Note 5) unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day. (reference)

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. (reference)

To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders. (reference)

Each of the Powers concerned may appoint a secretary. (reference)

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Business

Foreign firms not registered with the BCA must appoint a qualified distributor. (references)

A firm can appoint multiple agents in Egypt on a geographical or product basis. (references)

Thus, a key element for success is to appoint a reliable and well-informed representative. (references)

Children

Taiwan

Courts are authorized to appoint guardians for children who have either lost their parents or whose parents are deemed unfit. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In addition the Government requires that it appoint all deans and the presidents at all eight public universities. (references)

Egypt

If such a quorum is unattainable, the judiciary may appoint a caretaker board until new elections can be scheduled. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Agents often appoint subagents to cover smaller cities. (references)

Austria

Non-residents must appoint a representative in Austria. (references)

Latvia

A common practice is to appoint one distributor/agent to cover the entire country. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

On occasion, the court may appoint a lawyer. (references)

Azerbaijan

The court is required to appoint an attorney for indigent defendants. (references)

India

State governments appoint subdistrict and district judicial magistrates. (references)

Indigenous People

Guyana

Under the act, the Government may determine who is an Amerindian and what is an Amerindian community, appoint Amerindian leaders, and annul decisions made by Amerindian councils. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

During the year, the High Court of Justice ruled that the Government must appoint an additional Arab to the board. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

Unions have a legal right to appoint safety representatives where an employer has recognized their union. (references)

Political Rights

Rwanda

The central Government continued to appoint officials at the regional and national levels. (references)

Bangladesh

The law empowers the Government to appoint these chairmen until the indirect elections can be held. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The King appoints all other ministers, who in turn appoint subordinate officials with cabinet concurrence. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

American exporters of perishable goods are advised to appoint their own quality surveyors in Kuwait to protect their rights. (references)

Switzerland

Although the federal government is not a shareholder, it has statutory power to appoint 25 of the bank's 40 council members, including the president, vice-president, and board of directors. (references)

Women

Egypt

At year's end, the Court of Cassation still was examining the cases of two attorneys, Fatma Lashin and Amany Talaat, who are challenging the Government's refusal to appoint them as public prosecutors. (references)

Worker Rights

Portugal

When collective bargaining fails, the Government may appoint a mediator at the request of either management or labor. (references)

Croatia

The law allows unions to appoint health and safety stewards in companies, but their activities are not regulated by collective agreements. (references)

Croatia

If they cannot agree, the Labor Law calls for the "Economic and Social Council" (GSV) represented by the Government, labor, and private sectors, and headed by a labor professional, to appoint one. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "appoint": appoint oneself as mayor ♦ appoint to a permanent post ♦ To appoint one's self. Additional references.

Ending with "appoint": re-appoint.

Afrikaans

aanstel, benoem (call, nominate). (various references)

Albanian

urdhëroj (bid, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, enjoin, give a command, ordain, order, prescribe, require, will), emëroj (instal, install, name, nominate, rubricate), caktoj (allocate, allot, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وظف (employ), ‏حدد (adjust, allocate, assess, assign, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, determine, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, narrow, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, qualify, set, shoe, type), ‏عين (allocate, assign, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply, tap), ‏جهز (accommodate, activate, device, equip, equip with, fit, fit out, furnish, gear, get ready, outfit, pack up, prepare, provide, set off, set smb. up in smth., stand by, think out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заповядвам (bid, command, direct, enjoin, instruct, ordain, require, rule the roost, send an order, tell). (various references)

Chinese 

聘任 , 指定 (designated), �"任 , 任命 (Appointed, Appointing, Appointment, Instate, Instated, Instating). (various references)

Czech

ustanovit (constitute, designate, institute, ordain, place, set), urèit (allocate, assign, define, design, designate, destine, determine, earmark, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will), sjednat (arrange, close, negotiate), jmenovat (call, designate, dub, name, nominate, vote), dosadit. (various references)

Danish

Afgørelse truffet af repraesentanterne for regeringerne for De europaeiske Faellesskabers medlemsstater den 26.7.1994 om indstilling af den person,som de foreslår udnaevnt til formand for Kommissionen for De Europaeiske Faellesskaber (Decision of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Communities of 26-7-1994 nominating the person they intend to appoint as President of the Commission of the European Communities), af Raadet begaere udmeldt en voldgiftsinstans (to call upon the Council to appoint an arbitration board), udpege en procesfuldmægtig i retskredsen for den ret,som begæringen indgives til (to appoint a representative ad litem in the jurisdiction of the court applied to). (various references)

Dutch

benoemen (call, nominate), aanstellen (pitching). (various references)

Esperanto

nomumi (nominate), enoficigi. (various references)

Farsi 

منصوب کردن (Invest), گماشتن (Assign, Charge, Designate), واداشتن (Cause, Stand, Wrest), تعیین کردن (Assess, Assign, Bound, Determine, Fix, Locate, Prescribe, Qualify, Slate, Specify, State, Telloff), برقرارکردن (Establish, Institute). (various references)

Finnish

nimittää (call, name, nominate, term), määrätä (assign, determine, direct, fix, lay down, modify, order, prescribe, preseribe, provide, qualify). (various references)

French

nommer, commettre. (various references)

Frisian

oanstelle. (various references)

German

ernennen (call, constitute, deputize, name, nominate, post, to appoint, to deputize, to nominate), bestimmen (ascertain, characterize, classify, condition, decide, define, design, designate, destine, determine, earmark, fix, govern, identify, intend, lay down, mark out, mean, ordain, prearrange, qualify, set, specify, to appoint, to designate, to destine, to determine, to intend, to ordain, type, will). (various references)

Greek 

διορίζω (assign, constitute, depurate, depute, deputize, designate, name, name to, nominate, ordain). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליע�" (allocate, assign, destine, earmark, ordain, reserve), ליסו�" (establish, found, institute, set up), לקבוע (condition, designate, determine, fix, insert, install, prescribe, provide), לפקו�" (command, entrust, muster, order, punish, recall, remember, review, visit), ל�"ושיב (populate, seat, set, settle, sit), ל�"פקי�" (deposit, entrust, set). (various references)

Hungarian

kitûz (mark out, pin up), kinevez (nominate, to appoint, to commission, to name, to nominate), kijelöl (allot, assign, designate, doom, lay out, mark off, mark out, situate, tell off, to appoint, to assign, to designate, to fix on, to lay out, to mark out, to reassign, to set out, to trace out), elõléptet (promote). (various references)

Indonesian

menunjuk (designate, indicate, point toward, raise one's hand, with reference to), mengangkat (adopt, assign, carry, designate, doff, elevate, heave, lift, nab, pick up, promote, raise, take up), benum. (various references)

Italian

nominare (assign, designate, mention, name, nominate, title). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り立てる (to appoint, to collect, to extort, to promote), 仰せつける (to appoint, to command, to request), 仰せ付ける (to appoint, to command, to request), 任ずる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), 任じる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), 命ずる (to appoint, to command), 命じる (to appoint, to command, to order). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおせつける (to appoint, to command, to request), に�"ずる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), に�"じる (to appoint, to assume, to nominate, to pose as), めいずる (to appoint, to command), めいじる (to appoint, to command, to order), とりたてる (to appoint, to collect, to extort, to promote). (various references)

Korean 

임명하십시�" (Nominate). (various references)

Manx

soiaghey harrish, pointeil (appointing, appointment, bidding), poinsheil (appointment, bid, bid order, bidding), enmys (address, baptize, baptize ship, cite, denominate, denomination, designate, designation, direct, entitle, enumerate, head, name, nomenclature, nominate, specify, style, superscription, term, terminology, title), curmal (duty, enforce, enjoin, impose, regulate), curmaghey (appointment, impose, regulate, regulation). (various references)

Norwegian

utnevne, fastsette. (various references)

Pig Latin

appointay

Portuguese

ordenar (as instructed, assign, assort, bid, charge, class, command, decree, dictate, dispose, enacting, enjoin, fix up, frog, impose, Marshal, ordain, order, pigeonhole, post, prescribe, put in order, range, settle, sort, tell, tidy), nomear (assign, call, choose, create, denominate, depute, designate, elect, institute, name, nominate, pick out, place, prefer), fixar (affix, allocate, append, assign, clench, cling to, define, determine, engraver, fasten, firmament, fix, get caught on, impair, joggle, Lodge, make fast, nail, pin, pitch, plant, put, record, rivet, root, secure, steady, tie), eleger (choose, constitute, elect, pick out), determinar (access, affix, ascertain, condition, define, destine, determinate, determine, fasten, fix, governable, make, make fast, order, post, prescribe, put, put in mind, resolve, route, secure, set, settle), designar (ascribe, attach, choose, define, denominate, design, designate, destine, determine, elect, Mark, name, nominate, pick out, prefer). (various references)

Romanian

admite (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, allow of, approve, assume, avow, Brook, concede, confess, contain, enter, grant, receive, suffer, take for granted, tolerate, vouchsafe), stabili (arrange, ascertain, assess, calm, clinch, conclude, constitute, decree, determine, erect, establish, fix, institute, introduce, lay down, Lodge, measure, nail down, name, nominate, regulate, set, set out, settle, spot, state, verify), orândui (arrange, classify, decide, direct, dispose, foreordain, make tidy, regulate, set, size, tidy up, trim), numi (call, constitute, designate, make, name, nominate, place, put, surname), hotãrî (conclude, decide, destine, determine, fix, give, judge, make, persuade, resolve, rule, seal, settle, state, stipulate, will), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), face (achieve, act, anoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield), echipa (accoutre, commission, equip, fit, man, outfit, prepare, rig, set out), determina (abstract, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, entail, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), desemna (assign, designate), decide (cause, decide, determine, fix, judge, resolve, state), cãpãtui, încadra (border, encircle, enclose, enframe, frame, surround). (various references)

Russian 

назначать (apoint, assign, constitute, destine, elect, name, order). (various references)

Scottish

suidhich (arrange, let for rent, plant, set), sònruich (choose, ordain, particularise), sònraich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

postaviti (designate, induct, instal, install, mount, pad, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), odrediti (allot, appropriate, assign, cast, define, designate, destine, detail, determine, fix, mark off, mark out, modify, order, peg, route, set, set by), imenovati (denominate, designate). (various references)

Spanish

nombrar (commission, name, nominate, post, put forward, put up, slate, term). (various references)

Swedish

utnämna (create, designate, name, nominate), tillsätta (add, add on, assign, dose, put in), bestämma (assign, be determined, condition, decide, decree, define, designate, destine, determine, direct, fix, fix up, intend, judge, mean, modify, name, qualify, rule, set, settle, sway). (various references)

Turkish

atamak (accredit, advance, assign, co opt, commission, constitute, coopt, create, depute, deputize, designate, elect, install, institute, nominate, ordain, post, prefer, station), tayin etmek (commission, deputize, designate, institute, name, nominate, post, prefer, station), saptamak (assign, determine, establish, fix, peg, state), kararlaştırmak (agree, arrange, concert, decide, determine, fix, fix on, fix up on, set, settle, slate), dayayıp döşemek, döşemek (floor, furnish, inlay, lay down, spread, upholster, veneer), belirlemek (adjust, assess, assign, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, slate, specify, state). (various references)

Ukrainian

устатковувати, відводити (abduct, allot, apportion, assign, avert, drain, draw away, shunt, take back), вирішувати (arbitrate, aread, choose, conclude, decide, decree, elect, resolve, settle, solve), опоряджувати, наказувати (administer punishment, charge, command, decree, dictate, dispose, order), меблювати (furnish), зважуватися (chance, resolve, scale), затверджувати (approbate, approve, certify, o.k., ok, okay, okey, ratify, validate), пропонувати (charge, hold forth, hold out, offer, proffer, propose, put, put forward, set forward, set up, suggest, tender, volunteer), прирікати (devote, doom, seal), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), приписувати (accredit, allege, arrogate, ascribe, assign, attach, attribute, credit, credit with, enjoin, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer), домовлятися (agree, agree on, agree upon, arrange, bargain, bespeak, book, capitulate, close, concert, negotiate, settle). (various references)

Welsh

apwyntio, penodi (allot, assign), pennu (determine, specify), nodi (adduce, mark, note, state), gosod (affix, allot, artificial, assign, attach, false, let, place, put, set). (various references)

adponam, adponat, adponatis, adponatur, adpone, adponentur, adponerent, adponet, adponetur, adponitur, adponunt, adponuntur, adposita, adpositae, adpositaque, adpositi, adpositis, adpositus, adpositusque, adposuerit, adposuerunt, adposui, adposuit, adscribantur, adscribatur, adscribit, adtributa, condixerant, condixerat, condixi, constituo, crea, creabit, creabitur, creabuntur, creans, crearentur, crearet, creas, creasti, creata, creatae, creatam, creati, creatis, creator, creatum, creatura, creaturae, creaturam, creatus, creavi, creavit, creavitque, creo, cretes, designavi, designavit, dic, dicam, dicamque, dicamus, dicant, dicantur, dicas, dicat, dicatis, dicatque, dicatur, dicebam, dicebamque, dicebant, dicebantur, dicebas, dicebat, dicebatque, dicebatur, dicemus, dicemusque, dicenda, dicendo, dicendum, dicens, dicensque, dicent, dicente, dicentem, dicentes, dicenti, dicentia, dicentibus, dicentis, dicentium, dicentque, dicentur, dicere, diceremus, dicerent, diceres, diceret, diceretis, diceretur, dices, dicesque, dicet, dicetis, dicetque, dicetur, diceturque, dici, dicimini, dicimus, dicis, dicit, dicite, dicitis, dicito, dicitur, dico, dicta, dictae, dictis, dicto, dictos, dictum, dictumque, dicturi, dicturus, dicturusque, dictus, dicunt, dicuntur, disponam, disponamus, disponat, dispone, disponens, disponent, disponentur, dispones, disponet, disponis, dispono, disposita, dispositi, disposito, dispositum, disposuerat, disposuerunt, disposui, disposuisti, disposuit, dixeram, dixeramus, dixeras, dixerat, dixeratis, dixerim, dixerimus, dixerint, dixeris, dixerit, dixeritis, dixero, dixerunt, dixeruntque, dixi, diximus, dixique, dixisse, dixissem, dixissent, dixisset, dixisti, dixistique, dixistis, dixit, dixitque, edicam, edicere, edicta, edicti, edictis, edictum, indicare, indicas, indicat, indicens, indices, indicet, indico, indictoaudientes, indixi, indixisset, indixit, indixitque, iube, iubeas, iubeat, iubebit, iubebo, iubente, iubere, iuberet, iubes, iubet, iussa, iusserat, iusseris, iusserit, iusserunt, iussi, iussisset, iussisti, iussit, iussitque, iussu, iussum, iussus, lego, monstro, ordinabis, ordinabuntur, ordinant, ordinantes, ordinare, ordinasti, ordinata, ordinatae, ordinati, ordinatione, ordinationi, ordinatis, ordinatores, ordinatus, ordinaverunt, ordinavit, ordinem, ordines, ordino, praeordinati, praeordinatis, praeordinavit, suffecerit, suffecit, sufficere, sufficerent, sufficeret, sufficiant, sufficiat, sufficiebant, sufficiebat, sufficiens, sufficient, sufficientes, sufficientia, sufficientiam, sufficientis, sufficiet, sufficit, sufficiunt, superdixerunt. (various references)

apointer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "appoint": appointed, appointee, appointees, appointing, appointive, appointment, appointments, appoints. (additional references)

Words ending with "appoint": disappoint, reappoint. (additional references)

Words containing "appoint": disappointed, disappointedly, disappointing, disappointingly, disappointment, disappointments, disappoints, nonreappointment, nonreappointments, reappointed, reappointing, reappointment, reappointments, reappoints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Appoint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apoint, Appio, appoi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inapt, paint, panto, patin, patio, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point.

-3 letters: anti, atop, into, iota, naoi, nipa, nota, pain, pant, pian, pina, pint, pion, pita, tain, topi.

-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, ion, nap, nip, nit, not, oat, opt, pan, pap, pat, pia, pin, pip, pit, poi, pop, pot, tan, tao.

+1 letter: antipope, appoints, oppilant, panoptic, pupation.

+2 letters: antipopes, appointed, appointee, apportion, palpation, pantropic, pupations, reappoint.

+3 letters: apparition, appointees, appointing, appointive, apportions, apposition, disappoint, inapposite, oppilating, palpations, pentaploid, populating, population, propionate, reappoints.

+4 letters: antipopular, apparitions, appellation, application, appointment, apportioned, appositions, approbating, approbation, disappoints, palpitation, pantropical, pentaploids, pentaploidy, populations, postnuptial, preadopting, preparation, propagating, propagation, propionates, reappointed, reapportion, spanakopita, spanokopita, suppuration.

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