appoint

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) 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. (intransitive, obsolete) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈpɔɪnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: apointen

Cognate with French: appointer

In summary

From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

Synonyms

assign

nominate

designate

fix

name

establish

allocate

ordain

order

set

command

allot

create

choose

charge

elect

determine

select

earmark

put

prescribe

set up

entrust

constitute

commission

delegate

install

depute

specify

subpoena

employ

attach

destine

summons

define

furnish

affix

fasten

stick

equip

decree

decide

appointment

indicate

authorize

promote

pick out

make

direct

secure