亚洲网紅露点

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appoint

[ uh-point ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate:

    to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.

    Synonyms: ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. to determine by authority or agreement; fix; set:

    to appoint a time for the meeting.

    Synonyms: ,

  3. Law. to designate (a person) to take the benefit of an estate created by a deed or will.
  4. to provide with what is necessary; equip; furnish:

    They appointed the house with all the latest devices.

  5. Archaic. to order or establish by decree or command; ordain; constitute:

    laws appointed by God.

  6. Obsolete. to point at by way of censure.


verb (used without object)

  1. Obsolete. to ordain; resolve; determine.

appoint

/ 蓹藞辫蓴瑟苍迟 /

verb

  1. also intr to assign officially, as for a position, responsibility, etc

    he was appointed manager

  2. to establish by agreement or decree; fix

    a time was appointed for the duel

  3. to prescribe or ordain

    laws appointed by tribunal

  4. property law to nominate (a person), under a power granted in a deed or will, to take an interest in property
  5. to equip with necessary or usual features; furnish

    a well-appointed hotel

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 补辫藞辫辞颈苍迟别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补辫路辫辞颈苍迟顎僡路产濒别 adjective
  • 补辫路辫辞颈苍迟顎侥谤 noun
  • 尘颈蝉顎卆辫路辫辞颈苍迟顎 verb (used with object)
  • 谤别顎卆辫路辫辞颈苍迟顎 verb (used with object)
  • un顎叢贡杪繁璐蔷辈猿兕僡路产濒别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of appoint1

1325鈥75; Middle English apointen, from Middle French apointer, equivalent to a- a- 5 + pointer 鈥渢辞 point
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of appoint1

C14: from Old French apointer to put into a good state, from a point in good condition, literally: to a point
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Synonym Study

See furnish.
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After the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn F茅in appointed Mr Donaldson as its key administrator in the party's Stormont offices.

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Once May had stood aside, Jenkyns found favour with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who appointed her as an assistant government whip in 2021 and a junior education minister a year later.

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In the film, an unknown cardinal - secretly appointed by the late pope - is catapulted into the fray.

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Trump has appointed various figures associated with Project 2025 to roles in the government, among them Russell Vought, an architect of the playbook who was appointed head of the Office of Management and Budget.

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Parks said he laid out his reorganization plan within weeks of being appointed chief in 1997, but he didn鈥檛 fault McDonnell for treading carefully.

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