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appoint
What does appoint mean?
appoint (verb): to name (someone to a post or role).
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use appoint in a sentence?
- Appoint me as the project lead. (Tatoeba sentence #13994309 by menaud, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce appoint?
/əˈpɔɪnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does appoint come from?
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to appoint
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “appoint” mean?
to collect normally separate things
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refer for judgment or consideration
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make a logical or causal connection
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to name (someone to a post or role)
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