appointment
/əˈpɔɪnt.mɛnt/ 名词 A2中文： 任命、任用、约会
- The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust. · His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
- The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed. · the appointment of treasurer
- A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
- An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement. · They made an appointment to meet at six.· I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment.
- A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution. · to submit to the divine appointments
- 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.
- The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
- Equipment, furniture.
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It’s an appointment made twenty years ago.
Bingley was punctual to his appointment; and he and Mr.
And in the door of the hardware store the man who had come a thousand miles to fill an appointment, uncertain almost to absurdity, with the friend of his youth, smoked his cigar and waited.
“Your last remark,” said Holmes, presently, “as to the possibility of there being an understanding between the burglar and the servant, and this being a note of appointment from one to the other, is an ingenious and not entirely impossible supposition.
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