appointap‧point /əˈpɔɪnt/ ●●○ W3 verb [transitive] 
officials appointed by the governmentappoint somebody to something He’s been appointed to the State Supreme Court.appoint somebody to do something A committee was appointed to consider the plans.appoint (somebody) as something O'Connell was appointed as chairman.2formal to arrange or decide a time or place for something to happen: The committee appointed a day in June for celebrations. Everyone assembled in the hall at the appointed time (=at the time that had been arranged).—appointee /əˌpɔɪnˈtiː, ˌæpɔɪn-/ noun [countable]: a presidential appointee → self-appointed, well-appointedGRAMMAR: Patterns with appoint• You appoint someone to a post or position: · He promised to appoint more women to senior positions.• You appoint someone as chairman, manager, ambassador etc: · The board appointed him as chairman.• You appoint someone to do something: · Schwarzkopf was appointed to command US forces.
WORD ORIGINappoint
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French apointier ‘to arrange’, from pointVERB TABLE
appoint
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | appoint |
| he, she, it | appoints | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | appointed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have appointed |
| he, she, it | has appointed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had appointed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will appoint |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have appointed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am appointing |
| he, she, it | is appointing | |
| you, we, they | are appointing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was appointing |
| you, we, they | were appointing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been appointing |
| he, she, it | has been appointing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been appointing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be appointing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been appointing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A committee was appointed to consider changes to the Prison Service.
- Judge Bailey appointed a new time for the trial.
- Pope John Paul II appointed several new bishops.
- Schreiber was appointed director of human resources.
- Simpson has been appointed to the Memphis Branch board for a three-year term.
- The committee was appointed to make recommendations on housing development in the area.
- The company has appointed a new sales director.
- The French president has appointed a new Minister for Culture.
- They have appointed Jane Staller as their new East Coast manager.
- This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to the post.
- When he was governor, Brown appointed Rose Bird as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.
- At the appointed hour for the concert to begin, crowds began streaming off the parade route and into the park.
- Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.
- Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.
- She was later appointed a skating judge.
- The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.
Longman Language Activatorto choose someone for a job or team
to decide who is the best person for a job, team, prize etc: · Companies are now using computers to help them choose new workers.choose somebody as something: · The board has unanimously chosen Cole as Gray's temporary replacement.choose somebody to do something: · Eventually, Jane was chosen to deliver the message.
formal to choose someone for a particular job, team, place at school etc, after considering a lot of different people who might be suitable: · The college selects only twelve students a year from the thousands who apply.select somebody for something: · We selected four applicants for interview.select somebody to do something: · Ernst had been selected to play in the game against Belgium.
to officially choose someone to do an important job: · The company has appointed a new sales director.appoint somebody to something: · Simpson has been appointed to the Memphis Branch board for a three-year term.appoint somebody as something: · They have appointed Jane Staller as their new East Coast manager.appoint somebody to do something: · A committee was appointed to consider changes to the Prison Service.
to choose someone for a sports team or an important job: · The class was divided into four teams, and each group was asked to pick a leader.pick somebody to do something: · Joe picked Steve and Terry to be on his team.pick somebody for something: · Do you think he might pick another woman for the Supreme Court?
to publicly say who has been chosen for an important job in an organization: · The editor of "The Times" has resigned amid a political storm. His successor has not yet been named.name somebody to something: · McCarthy was recently named to the Small Business Committee.name somebody as something: · The magazine has named Bonnie Fuller as deputy editor.name somebody something: · We are naming Dr Bob McClure head of the IRC in China.
if someone, especially a group of people, nominates someone, they officially choose that person to be considered for a particular job: nominate somebody to something: · Mills is expected to be formally nominated to the board next month.nominate somebody to do something: · Lee was the first Chinese American nominated to head the Civil Rights Division.nominate somebody as something: · They nominated her as the British spokesperson at the International Arms Conference.
British /be on the short list if you are shortlisted or on the short list for a job or a position, you are one of a small group of people who have been chosen from other people who want the job, and from that small group one person will be chosen: · Three applicants have been shortlisted and will be invited for interview next week.be shortlisted for: · He's been on the President's short list for the job twice.
American to officially choose someone for an important job: tap somebody for something: · Reinhardt was tapped for the federal bench in 1980 by former President Carter.
to give someone a job · If I give you the job, how soon can you begin?· After law school, he was given a job in the city's legal department.give sb a job as · Goldman gave her a job as his assistant.
also hire especially American to give someone a job and pay them for the work they do for you: · Since he came out of prison no one will employ him.· The company has been accused of not hiring enough women.employ as: · I was employed as a night-watchman by the local hospital.· She was hired as marketing director for a biotechnology firm.
if a company takes on someone, it gives them a job - use this especially about a job that might not be permanent or when a lot of people are given jobs at the same time: take on somebody: · We're not taking on any more staff at the moment.take somebody etc on: · Franklin needed an assistant, and he got funding from the department to take one on. take somebody on as something: · The director took me on as a messenger while they were filming in my village.
British formal to give someone a job: · The vet was increasingly busy and had to engage two new assistants.engage somebody as something: · Paul was engaged as a junior clerk at a very low wage.
to choose someone for a job, especially an important job: · The French president has appointed a new Minister for Culture.· The committee was appointed to make recommendations on housing development in the area.appoint somebody as director/manager etc: · When he was governor, Brown appointed Rose Bird as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.appoint somebody director/manager etc: · Schreiber was appointed director of human resources.appoint somebody to a job/post/ position etc: · This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to the post.
to find new people to work for a company or organization such as the army: · The police department is trying to recruit more black officers.· It's getting more and more difficult to recruit experienced staff.
also sign American if a football team, record company, film company etc signs up or signs someone, they agree to give them a job and make them sign an official contract: · Allegre was signed by the New York Jets.· Six episodes of the show have been taped, and the actors have been signed for six more.sign up somebody: · England soccer star Paul Gascoigne was signed up by a top Italian club.sign somebody up: · The band have just completed a highly successful US tour, and several record companies have offered to sign them up.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Everyone assembled in the hall at the appointed time (=at the time that had been arranged).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to choose someone for a position or a job: Everyone assembled in the hall at the appointed time (=at the time that had been arranged).· They agreed that an independent chairman should be appointed to the board.
· The prime minister appoints the cabinet.
(=choose the members of a commission)· The president appointed a commission to develop standards in schools.
· The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
(=officially announce that someone is leader)· Green was appointed deputy leader.
(=give someone a job officially)· Mr Collingwood has been appointed to the post of Headteacher.
· The Board met to choose his successor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Its future is assured, thanks to the support of newly appointed headteacher Robert Powell.· Emygdius' ability to evangelize created such a stir that the newly appointed bishop was beheaded.· Five members were newly appointed including two women.· But the newly appointed national security adviser has been assiduously built into a prominent player in the Bush team.· In March 1981 the office-holders of the association decided to invite the newly appointed Ambassador Popov to lunch.· Still, newly appointed Cabinet members maintained a cautious outlook after their morning meeting.
· Martha was the recently appointed tutor in creative writing.· Rod Grams recently appointed a Pennington County extension agent to his rural policy task force.· He was also an enthusiastic sportsman, and was recently appointed an honorary chairman of Selkirk Cricket Club.· Problems by the bushel await Prior and his recently appointed team of deputies.
NOUN· Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.· In return, local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction.· This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.· Health post: Yorkshire regional health authority has appointed Len Wright as its new director of finance.· Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place.· The principal officers of the local authority are those which the authority decides to appoint.· Health authorities are currently appointing some health professionals, mainly doctors, into managerial positions with nursing as part of their remit.
· Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.· He will appoint a five-member board that serves at his pleasure to oversee development of the island for city use.· It was at this time that the wellknown property mover and solicitor Noel Smyth appointed nominees to the board of Chestvale.· Then, Clinton also intervened, without appointing an emergency board, by appealing to both parties to agree to binding arbitration.· Sonia Land was appointed to the Board on 25 March 1992.· Taylor was appointed to the UMass board by Gov.· He joined the Screen Actors Guild in 1937 and was appointed to its board in 1941.· The governor had replaced half of the appointed school board.
· It chooses a Premier from amongst its number, who then appoints a Cabinet.· Executive power is exercised by the President who appoints and leads the Cabinet.· The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.· The President appoints the Cabinet, and is assisted by two Vice-Presidents.
· The board appointed him chairman and managing director, a fulltime post.· Following the defections, Copeland appointed himself treasurer and chairman of his own campaign.· Paul Myners, 51, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Guardian Media Group.· Martin Brookes has been appointed as the new chairman and succeeds Charlie Jones, who drops to vice chairman.· Judges are normally appointed as chairmen of those numerous committees which are concerned with reform of substantive law or legal procedure.
· On 9 October, 1912 the Football League appointed a commission to inquire into alleged illegal payments by the club.· In July, Premier Whitney appointed his own three-man commission of inquiry to examine the subject of electrical power.· He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.· They also appointed him to a commission to examine administrative reforms.· Justice J. S. Verma was appointed to head the commission on May 27.· Hoover, our hardest worked man, is at the White House appointing commissions.· The University of Geneva appointed an international commission to investigate their work, which met in August 1983.· He is going to have to appoint a commission to keep track of the commissions that he has appointed.
· In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties.· Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.· Rather than intervening directly, the Home Office appointed an independent commissioner, whose report vindicated Dyer's accusations.· Mr Prager has been appointed one of the commissioners to the Paris Exposition.· In 1694 he was appointed a customs commissioner, a post he held until 1701 and again from 1714 onward.
· These committees regularly appoint their own members to the Court.· But conservationists were outnumbered on the committee appointed to deal with land conservation.· In 1822, a congressional committee was appointed to explore solutions to the problem.· At a meeting of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Complaints made by the Officers of this Institution.· A committee was then appointed to draw up the rules for the Convention and the delegates adjourned for the weekend.· The committee members are appointed by the Committee of Selection.· Former Senator John Tower was the head of an independent committee, appointed by Reagan, to look into the affair.
· Other directors will be appointed from within the company, Pegasus says.· Inspectors had been appointed to investigate two companies under the control of Robert Maxwell.
· The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.· Shalala appointed the council in March 1994.· Town, city, and county managers are appointed by a council or commission.· In July, for example, five Catholics were appointed to the Privy Council.· A seven-member board, appointed by the councils in five cities that ring the bay, governs the port.
· Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.· Whatever is decided will be scrutinized by a court-appointed authority.· All but one of the current justices on the state high court were appointed by the last two Republican governors.· Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.· It is possible therefore for the court to appoint a solicitor even though a guardian has been appointed.
· Problems by the bushel await Prior and his recently appointed team of deputies.· Like any office holder, he could appoint his own deputy.· He seems also to have had the right to appoint deputies to act for him in individual duchy lordships.· Then appoint a deputy to take over the command of the Warden's duties and forces - possibly Sir Simon himself.· When Amis became literary editor of the New Statesman, he appointed Barnes his deputy.· Li Jing, hitherto deputy commander of the navy, was appointed as his deputy.· Carnogursky was appointed First Deputy Premier.
· Sheila Tindle, 28, has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke.· It also called a shareholders' meeting to appoint new directors.· When you became a Minister you appointed me Managing Director.· External and internal auditing Internal auditors are appointed by the directors.
· In 1987, he was appointed chief executive of Leyland Daf.· The Governor appoints the Premier, who appoints the executive Cabinet.· This would have appointed a new executive committee which, in turn, would have chosen a new chairman.· The Council appoints an Executive Director to control of the day-to-day running of the Society.· Even the Equal Opportunities Commission appointed a male chief executive in 1985.· Tomkins also announced that it had hired an executive search firm to help appoint a new chief executive.
· The government appointed in January 1938 remained in office for the rest of the war.· Instead, he said, they should act like ambassadors, representing the positions of the government that appoints them.· They are appointed by foreign governments, and once appointed, politically unaccountable.· He promised that the new government he is appointing this week will deliver on the promised benefits of market reforms.· The Government has already appointed a legal team in an effort to push through the building proposals.· The President is both head of state and head of government and appoints a Cabinet.· The Government appointed a special advisor to report upon possible solutions for community care and this report was published in early 1988.
· On 25 August 1914 he was, however, appointed Military Governor of Paris, and its defence became entirely his responsibility.· A commission appointed by the governor concluded that even a regiment could not have controlled the mob.· Hong Kong politicians called on Mr Major to end months of uncertainty by immediately appointing a new Governor.· In June 1646 Parliament appointed Mackworth governor of Shrewsbury, an office he held until his death.
· Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.· Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.· You can appoint one or two guardians.· James appointed new guardians with wider powers on each side of the Border, and troops were moved north.· It is particularly important therefore to appoint a guardian.
· Brigadier-General Dan Harel, commander of the Artillery Corps, was appointed head of an army board of inquiry.· After Clinton was elected in 1992, Herman was appointed head of the White House public liaison office.· Fourth, a chief executive officer should be appointed as the undisputed head of the paid officers of the local authority.· Prop 103 removes civil service protections from appointed department heads.· Former Labour Party member Jac Rabie was appointed as its head.· Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads?· Read in studio Gloucester's historic King's School has just appointed a new head of school.
· She was later appointed a skating judge.· The same would be true if Clinton responds by scaring women about a flood of pro-life Dole-appointed judges.· John Devaux, who became a Recorder and head of chambers in 1989, has been appointed a circuit judge.· Federal judges are appointed, while state judges are elected.· A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge.· At the age of thirty, 1vo was appointed diocesan judge and proved himself to be incorruptible.· There is only the fairness of what politically appointed election officials or politically appointed judges decide.· Four years later, she was appointed supervising judge in Manhattan, where she heard more than 20, 000 cases.
· Sometimes it is useful to appoint a team leader to help with the organization of the teams.· But Mitterand accepted the situation, appointing the conservatives' leader, Jacques Chirac, as premier.
· Sefton Council is to appoint a youth sport manager in the borough as part of a phased three year sporting programme.· Brent McArthur has been appointed general manager.· Northumbrian Water has appointed two new managers for the Teesside area.· Then Michael Brown was appointed city manager.· Sealy died in 1813, and Eleanor Coade appointed William Croggon as manager.· John Chambers, 35, has been appointed commercial manager responsible for all estimating and purchasing activities.
· These committees regularly appoint their own members to the Court.· He then appoints the members of the cabinet and clearly dominates the cabinet in the governmental process.· On Monday Darlington council's transport committee will be recommended to join the steering group and appoint a member.· Still, newly appointed Cabinet members maintained a cautious outlook after their morning meeting.· This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.· The council appoints the members of the board once every four years at its statutory meeting.· This standard would also apply to an individual appointed as a member of such a public body.
· To ensure that our plans for science and technology diffuse throughout government Labour will appoint a minister for science.· The President appoints the Prime Minister and, on the latter's recommendation, the other members of the government.· The President appoints a Prime Minister and a Cabinet, with whom he governs.
· Mausolus M 9 shows the satrap appointing two Karians to office in Xanthos.· The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.· Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.· First priority, however, was to appoint a head office team.· Competitions 1992 was busy again with promoters appointing the Office as Competition Administrators.
· When this was not done the judge ordered a receiver to be appointed as an officer of the court in place of the trustees.· Three years later, he was appointed chief financial officer.· Communication Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company's general manager.· To further the necessary changes within the workshop we appointed an education officer and an industrial liaison officer.· Specifically the money has been used to appoint a Project Officer, Nick Lewer.· She appointed officers, kept a watch over financial affairs, and made sure the work was progressing smoothly.· Some governing bodies appoint a press officer.· All members will be appointed by honourary officers.
· Ernest Marples, Macmillan's Transport Minister, appointed two working parties to find solutions.· Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general, Maj.-Gen.· The surveyor was duly appointed by the parties under the lease.
· The main features of committees are: They elect or have appointed a person who chairs the meeting.· Such a clause may provide for the president of the professional body to appoint such a person.
· Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.· She had been appointed to big post in State Department there.· Eric Connor has been appointed to the new post of director of resources at Northern Electric's operational director's department.· Lahoud, formerly commander in chief of the army, uses officers he has appointed to key posts as his power base.· Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case.· Julie Jack, emeritus fellow in philosophy, was appointed to a teaching post at King's College, Cambridge.· Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post.
· Where a guardian ad litem is not appointed initially there is power to appoint at any subsequent stage in the proceedings.· Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.· Local authorities no longer have the power to appoint their own auditors.· As part of the new consumer protection arrangements, a Pensions Ombudsman with wide-ranging powers has recently been appointed.· The court also has a power to appoint new trustees and to remove a trustee for unfitness or misconduct.· However, in the late eighteenth century the monarch still wielded considerable political power, appointing and dismissing governments according to choice.· Mr Kostunica's main power is in appointing the foreign and defence ministers and the army chief of staff.
· The President appoints a Vice-President and a Cabinet, all of whom are responsible to the Assembly.· The law allows the president to appoint a three-member presidential emergency board to examine the contract dispute and produce non-binding recommendations.· Executive power is exercised by the President who appoints and leads the Cabinet.· The President appoints the Council of Ministers.· As president, Sukarno appointed and dismissed all the Ministers, who were responsible to him.
· In that case a debenture holder had appointed a receiver, and the directors were allowed to bring a case against him.· Her affairs were placed in the hands of the Court of Protection, which appointed Mrs B receiver.· Sound Diffusion ordinary shares were suspended in December at 22p and the group asked its bankers to appoint a receiver.· A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy.· B and L were unable to keep up with their loan repayments and the bank appointed administrative receivers.· To appoint a receiver is more convenient for the mortgagee than taking possession.
· Recommendations on appointing representatives from Aboriginal communities to various local and national policy boards have been implemented.· Wells has appointed a representative or two who occasionally show up at local events.· Each functional manager appoints a representative who is responsible for the project within his department.· On 13 March 1990 Winchester was formally appointed as appointed representative of Norwich Union by a letter of that date.
· He moved even higher when later appointed First Secretary of the Writers' Union.· But good news came when Truman appointed Dean Acheson secretary of state.· An outside auditor appointed by the Secretary of Transportation will analyse Amtrak's financial practices, especially its strategic business plan.· If Bush wins, he should appoint Clinton as his secretary of state and give Gore a seat in the cabinet.· Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
· His recommendation was that a commanding officer be appointed with an administrative staff.· Opponents also cite the city government as an example of where elected officials have abdicated their power to the appointed staff.· They might also seek to appoint unqualified staff because of the apparent savings that can be made.· Initially he was appointed to the air staff at Bomber Command.
· It is for the monarch to appoint counsellors of state whenever she wishes, delegating whatever powers she wishes.· Federal judges are appointed, while state judges are elected.· The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State.· The head of state would have no powers to dissolve parliament or to appoint state officials without parliamentary approval.
· He began as deputy to Sir Michael Checkland and was appointed his successor without any other candidates being interviewed.· Clinton has appointed three successors to the vacant posts.· Richard Baxter appointed Mr. Baldwin his successor as pastor of the believers in Kidderminster.· On Sept. 10 Mohamed Moada was appointed as his successor.
officials appointed by the governmentappoint somebody to something He’s been appointed to the State Supreme Court.appoint somebody to do something A committee was appointed to consider the plans.appoint (somebody) as something O'Connell was appointed as chairman.2formal to arrange or decide a time or place for something to happen: The committee appointed a day in June for celebrations. Everyone assembled in the hall at the appointed time (=at the time that had been arranged).—appointee /əˌpɔɪnˈtiː, ˌæpɔɪn-/ noun [countable]: a presidential appointee → self-appointed, well-appointedGRAMMAR: Patterns with appoint• You appoint someone to a post or position: · He promised to appoint more women to senior positions.• You appoint someone as chairman, manager, ambassador etc: · The board appointed him as chairman.• You appoint someone to do something: · Schwarzkopf was appointed to command US forces.