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单词 appoint
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appoint
(əpɔɪnt )
Word forms: appoints , appointing , appointed
1. verb
If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
It made sense to appoint a banker to this job. [VERB noun + to]
The commission appointed a special investigator to conduct its own inquiry. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
The Prime Minister has appointed a civilian as defence minister. [VERB noun + as]
She was appointed a U.S. delegate to the United Nations. [be VERB-ed noun]
Synonyms: assign, name, choose, commission  
2.  See also appointed
Collocations:
appoint a board
Third, investors will scrutinise the company's efforts to appoint a board.
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Shareholders do not typically actively manage a corporation; shareholders instead elect or appoint a board of directors to control the corporation in a fiduciary capacity.
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For offshore funds structured as corporate entities, the fund may appoint a board of directors.
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The executive committee and board of directors together appoint a board of governors to act as an elders' council.
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appoint a captain
But the coaches are right to appoint the captain game by game.
Times, Sunday Times
A new manager can appoint a captain immediately.
Times, Sunday Times
And they are the body that appoints the captain.
The Sun
The flanker has led the national team on 19 occasions - despite only making one inter- national appearance prior to being appointed captain.
The Sun
In 1966, despite having already got up some official noses, she was appointed captain.
Times, Sunday Times
appoint a commission
He will appoint a commission charged with finding how such a merger of budgets, powers and decision-making could be achieved.
Times, Sunday Times
His first step will be to appoint a commission to recommend the best way to revamp the tax system.
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It would be far quicker to appoint a commission, royal or otherwise, with a specific remit to consider the issues and make conclusions within a year.
Times, Sunday Times
He said it was time the community took a lead in appointing a commission.
ST
The presbytery also has appointed a commission to explore ways to vacate the property.
Christianity Today
appoint a deputy
The need to appoint his deputy mayors and advisers at double-quick speed led to two highly publicised glitches.
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Ministers are pressing her to appoint a deputy prime minister or first secretary of state to cement the cabinet's influence over policy.
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The mayor may appoint a deputy mayor if needed.
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Unsurprisingly he preferred to appoint a deputy to act in his place.
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They appoint a deputy, to whom members make an oath of allegiance before they take their seats.
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appoint a director
It emerged yesterday, however, that the mutual has renegotiated terms so that it will still be able to appoint a director unless its stake falls below 15 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
United have performed badly in that area in recent years and the club has yet to appoint a director of football to assist their inexperienced manager.
Times, Sunday Times
The commission would then appoint a director under the commission's oversight.
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Each local council was authorized to appoint a director responsible for all civil defense functions within that political subdivision.
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The 58-year-old - manager for five years - has been appointed a director of the club and chief executive of their new academy.
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appoint a lawyer
He was not present at the hearing, nor did he appoint a lawyer.
Times, Sunday Times
But she was refusing to appoint a lawyer, he said, adding that she had become seriously overweight and listless.
Times, Sunday Times
He did not appoint a lawyer for this case or follow any hearings.
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The families rely on legal aid and have not appointed a lawyer.
Times, Sunday Times
appoint a leader
Within a few weeks he was appointed the leader of one of the four small cells based in the city centre.
Times, Sunday Times
The venture capitalist said that he wanted to wait before appointing a leader to develop the business after the cost-cutting.
Times, Sunday Times
After deciding as a group where we were headed, we appointed a leader who carried our biggest flashlight and determined the path the family would take.
Christianity Today
Most institutions do not appoint their leaders until they are in their fifties.
Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards, he was appointed the leader of the opposition by joint agreement of all the opposition parties.
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appoint a manager
Yet, logically, no club want to appoint any manager and dismiss him five months later.
Times, Sunday Times
If we are in a position to appoint a manager earlier than that, we will do.
Times, Sunday Times
I often find this sentence echoing around my mind - with 'football industry' substituted for 'movie industry' - whenever a club are looking to appoint a manager.
Times, Sunday Times
For example, any individual flat owner can apply to appoint a manager without having to go through the process of signing up numerous tenants in a large block of flats.
Times, Sunday Times
He should appoint a manager.
Times, Sunday Times
appoint a minister
It also urges the government to appoint a minister for alcohol and to resurrect plans for a minimum unit price, which were dropped last year.
Times, Sunday Times
It also called on the government to appoint a minister for financial inclusion and to report annually to parliament.
Times, Sunday Times
He appointed a minister of fun, to direct them to 'anything legal', he grins.
Times, Sunday Times
It also means raising the political profile of overfishing by appointing a minister for the oceans.
Times, Sunday Times
In due course he was appointed a minister in the village and spent the next seven years living there, trying to help heal the many broken families.
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appoint a panel
In the autumn he plans to appoint a panel of retired mandarins to advise on how the department can be improved.
Times, Sunday Times
The publishers say one member of the committee appointing the panel should represent the interests of publishers.
Times, Sunday Times
The company has not yet appointed a panel of asset managers to handle the assets it will take on.
Times, Sunday Times
The junta later wrote a highly abbreviated interim constitution and appointed a panel to draft a new permanent constitution.
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Her reaction to the reprimand was to tell the press that the home minister (who had appointed the panel) had no business to tell the interlocutors what they should do.
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appoint a professor
He was appointed a professor there in 1975, at 24, and remained there for the rest of his life.
Times, Sunday Times
He was appointed professor in 1984.
Times, Sunday Times
After retiring in 1982 he was appointed professor emeritus and continued to teach for another 10 years.
Globe and Mail
He was appointed professor emeritus in 1982, from when he turned his attention to the causes and consequences of conflict over a broader spectrum.
Times, Sunday Times
Appointed a professor extraordinary in 1701, he became a full professor in 1711.
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appoint a replacement
Is there time to appoint a replacement before the vote?
Times,Sunday Times
The publisher, which has pledged to pay a dividend for the first time, said that it expects to appoint a replacement soon.
Times, Sunday Times
It has yet to appoint a replacement.
Times, Sunday Times
The club will not appoint a replacement.
Times, Sunday Times
In most states, governors have the power to appoint a replacement temporarily, until a special election can be held.
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appoint a representative
He will appoint a representative to run it.
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The plaintiff has the right to appoint a representative to make the presentation on his behalf.
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In these cases, the fund appoints a representative to attend and cast the votes as directed by the customers of the fund.
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The convention was composed of both directly elected and appointed representatives.
Times, Sunday Times
The subjects obtained the right, in to appoint representatives by general election.
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appoint a successor
The trustees meet shortly to appoint the successor.
Times, Sunday Times
To ensure the budget carrier has plenty of time to appoint a successor, he will stand for re-election at next month's annual meeting.
Times, Sunday Times
He plays his potential heirs off against one another, refusing to appoint a successor, amassing ever more power and refusing to relinquish it, never acknowledging mortality or even age.
Times,Sunday Times
After considerable discussion he decided not to seek its renewal so that the governors could appoint a successor who would provide continuity by overseeing this renewal programme.
Times, Sunday Times
The process of appointing his successor will begin in the new year.
Times, Sunday Times
appoint an executor
You are free to appoint an executor or executors of your choice.
Times, Sunday Times
He would then publicise the bankruptcy, giving other creditors a chance to come forward, thirty days after which the creditors would meet to appoint an executor.
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When a person dies leaving a will appointing an executor, and that executor validly disposes of the property of the deceased, then the estate will go to probate.
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appointed by the court
Independent curators are appointed by the courts to look after goods seized by the unit.
ST
If there isn't, an executor would have to be appointed by the court.
Times, Sunday Times
The receiver submitted powerfully that it could not be a just solution that an officer appointed by the court should be left without payment for acting as the court directed.
Times, Sunday Times
Reports by independent experts appointed by the court can take months to produce and, again, are subject to challenge both in writing and before the court.
Times, Sunday Times
That law created the role of independent counsel, who was appointed by the courts rather than the executive branch.
Times, Sunday Times
appointed by the government
Last autumn local groups put a contrary view to the inspector appointed by the government to examine the county plan.
Times, Sunday Times
Only the governor and a few directors are appointed by the government.
ST
Landowners will be compensated for the land's market value, as decided by an independent valuer appointed by the government.
Times, Sunday Times
Its leader could be appointed by the government on a long-term deal - eight or ten years, say - with a committee that votes on the key decisions.
Times,Sunday Times
He had been appointed by the government in 2000 to look into ways of improving food in hospitals but stood down in 2006.
Times, Sunday Times
appointed chief
He was appointed chief executive in 1993 at a time when the industry was recovering from a prolonged global downturn.
Times, Sunday Times
He was appointed chief executive in 2004.
Times, Sunday Times
Appointed chief executive in 2001.
Times, Sunday Times
Newly appointed chief executives were earning between 10 per cent and 20 per cent less than their predecessors, he said, and senior posts were being advertised on reduced salaries.
Times, Sunday Times
At the age of 35, he was appointed chief executive.
Times, Sunday Times
appointed officials
Most of the day-to-day functions of local government are carried out by the appointed officials.
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This election process was to make the institutions more amenable to state control under the guidance of appointed officials.
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Local governments were dissolved, and appointed officials replaced elected mayors and councils.
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About 20 of these are political appointees and 180 non-politically appointed officials.
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While most have appointed officials running them, some lower-level jurisdictions have direct popular elections.
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council appoints
The council appoints a city manager to serve as chief administrative officer.
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The city council appoints a city manager to run the day-to-day operations.
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The council appoints a professional city manager responsible for supervising government operations and implementing the policies adopted by the council.
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The city council appoints the city attorney and city manager.
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The council appoints several key officials, namely the municipal manager, tax assessor, auditor, clerk, treasurer, and attorney.
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Translations:
Chinese: 任命
Japanese: 任命する
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