transcription, транскрипция: [ əpɔɪnt ]
( appoints, appointing, appointed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
If you appoint someone to a job or official position, you formally choose them for it.
It made sense to appoint a banker to this job...
The commission appointed a special investigator to conduct its own inquiry...
The Prime Minister has appointed a civilian as defence minister...
She was appointed a US delegate to the United Nations.
= assign
VERB : V n to n , V n to-inf , V n as n , be V-ed n , also V n n , V n
see also appointed