appoint

appoint
ap·point /ə-'pȯint/ vt
1: to name officially to a position
appoint ed to the agency's top post
appoint ed conservator of the estate
2: to determine the distribution of (property) by exercising the authority granted by a power of appointment
a general power to appoint the corpus of a trust — W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.
vi: to exercise a power of appointment see also power of appointment
ap·point·ive /ə-'pȯin-tiv/ adj
ap·point·ment n

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

appoint
I verb approve, assign, authorize, charge, charter, choose, commission, confirm, constituere, creare, create, delegate, depute, designate, destinare, dicere, direct, employ, empower, engage, enlist, entrust, establish, facere, give a mandate, license, name, pick, pick out, proclaim, require, sanction, select associated concepts: appoint to fill a vacancy, appoint under a will, appointing officer, appointing power, appointive office, public officers II index allocate, allot, assign (designate), authorize, bestow, charge (empower), choose, clothe, delegate, designate, detail (assign), dispense, employ (engage services), empower, engage (hire), entrust, furnish, hire, induct, instate, invest (vest), nominate, parcel, provide (arrange for), select

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


appoint
v.
To select, choose, or designate; to assign someone a job.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


appoint
To designate, select, or assign authority to a position or an office.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


appoint
To designate, select, or assign authority to a position or an office.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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  • appoint — [ apwɛ̃ ] n. m. • 1398; de 1. appointer 1 ♦ Complément d une somme en petite monnaie. FAIRE L APPOINT : ajouter le complément en petite monnaie, et par ext. régler exactement la somme due, de sorte que le créancier n ait aucune monnaie à rendre… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • appoint — ap‧point [əˈpɔɪnt] verb [transitive] 1. to choose someone for a job or position: • The company appointed a new chairman last week. appoint somebody to do something • It can appoint a foreign company to manufacture its product under licence.… …   Financial and business terms

  • Appoint — Ap*point ([a^]p*point ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Appointed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Appointing}.] [OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • appoint — APPOINT. s. m. La monnoie qui se donne pour achever une somme qu on ne sauroit parfaire avec les principales espèces employées au paiement. Pour faire mille francs en écus, il faut trois cent trente trois écus, et un appoint de vingt sous. On dit …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • appoint — [ə point′] vt. [ME apointen < OFr apointer, to arrange, make ready < ML appunctuare < L ad, to + punctum, POINT] 1. to set (a date, place, etc.); decide upon officially; decree [to appoint a time for a meeting] 2. to name or select… …   English World dictionary

  • Appoint — (franz., spr. pŭäng; ital. Appunto), zur Vollzahlung eines Geldbetrags dienende Scheidemünzen. Insbesondere heißt A. ein Wechsel, durch den in Verbindung mit einem oder mehreren andern eine Forderung vollkommen ausgeglichen wird. Erhält z. B. A… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Appoint — (frz., spr. pŏäng), ital. Appunto, ein Wechsel, der eine Schuld ausgleicht oder eine bestimmte Summe voll macht (Ausgleichungs , Abschlußwechsel; daher par appoint oder per appunto remittieren oder trassieren, den Rest einer Forderung durch… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • appoint — [v1] assign responsibility; decide accredit, allot, assign, choose, command, commission, decree, delegate, designate, determine, direct, elect, enjoin, establish, finger, fix, install, name, nominate, ordain, select, set, settle, tap; concepts 41 …   New thesaurus

  • Appoint — Ap*point ([a^]p*point ), v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. [1913 Webster] For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Appoint — (fr. [spr. Appoäng], ital. Appunto), auf den Punkt, genau; 1) ein Wechsel, wenn durch denselben eine Schuld genau ausgeglichen wird; dann auch, wenn er als ergänzender od. einzelner Theil einer größeren Summe angesehen wird; so sagt man z.B. 2) A …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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