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What is the noun for appointment?

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appointment
  1. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
  2. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
  3. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
  4. An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
  5. Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
  6. (law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
  7. (government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
  8. (plural) Equipment, furniture.
  9. (US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Fritz had made an appointment with my accountant to examine our books in order to reassure himself that all was in order.”
      “Accordingly, the purchaser would be warned to insist on the appointment of a second trustee for his own protection.”
      “In 1850, he returned to Ireland to take up an appointment as Archbishop of Armagh.”
appointor
  1. (law) The person who selects the appointee.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A general power is one which the appointor may exercise in favour of any person he pleases.”
      “In the UK, there is little communication between the receiver and creditors other than his appointor.”
      “If the appointor is a corporation, this form must be affixed with its common seal or signed by its director or duly authorised representative.”
appointer
  1. A person who appoints (in any sense).
  2. Examples:
    1. “The appointer picked the cream to work on board Daring, as the eyes of the world would be watching.”
      “The well-being of the country, with appointer and appointees, becomes a secondary consideration.”
      “Kiir could use the advantage of being the appointer and statehouse incumbent to get a firm grip in the grassroots.”
appointee
  1. a person who is appointed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “That put the president in the unusual position of officially distancing himself from his own appointee.”
      “The position was then reannounced for the third time, and the political appointee applied and was selected for the position.”
      “When a President's political appointee comes in to an agency and does a good job, his or her peers are frustrated when he or she leaves.”
appointments
  1. plural of appointment
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Patients waiting for appointments had to sit in the main corridors because there wasn't even a waiting room.”
      “The unit was intended to review the system of public appointments to avoid accusations of political bias.”
      “Charging patients who fail to keep hospital appointments could cut hospital waiting lists.”
appointees
  1. plural of appointee
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The majority of his appointees have been approved, and they have been approved with no public rancor or bitter political warfare.”
      “Women feature little in the ranks of royal appointees, apart from royalty themselves.”
      “Many of the appointees have been academics rather than professional lawyers.”
appointers
  1. plural of appointer
appointors
  1. plural of appointor
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