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What does appoint mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
  2. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
  3. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
  4. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  5. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  7. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
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