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appointment

appointment

8 8.1
A legal decision that lets someone give away money or property
  • noun
  • /əˈpɔɪntmənt/
  • Formal
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  • Following the appointment of the economic team, conflicts arose between officers and members of the team.

Examples

  • The particular kinds of power conferred upon protectors include powers of appointment, powers of resettlement, supervisory and enforcement powers, advisory powers, veto powers, and powers of direction.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Yeah, I mean, we have the power of appointment, so God's on our side.

  • But when I got to the court, the power of appointment was missing.

  • - It's not the power of appointment.

  • The power of appointment is eight pages.

  • "But even if I had been able to produce the power of appointment,

  • The goal would be to publish an agreement on the appointment process by January 1, 2001.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In Carolina, probate matters such as the appointment of administrators were announced in church.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Simon Dunne signed a power of appointment appointing Walter Arnell and Stephen Delano sole trustees of the foundation.

  • The attorney explained the appointment of a guardian in the will, detailing the legal distribution of assets.

Antonyms

revocation
  • Formal
9 7.3

An official decision to cancel something given or allowed before

Compounds

A book with a calendar to write times for meetings and events

2 8.8

The right to choose who gets certain property, often in a will

A book or app that shows your planned appointments

9.9

An unavoidable meeting with one's fate, often death

Surface Forms

appointment singular
appointments plural

Morphology

appointment = appoint (semi-transparent) = appoint + ment

Formally a standard nominalization, but the specific legal sense (distribution of property under a power) is specialized and may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

Appointment comes from the verb appoint, made of Latin ad- 'to' and ponere 'to put', the same root you see in position. In law, an appointment is the act of 'putting' property or rights to someone, for example by a will or other legal paper.