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appointment

Appointment means the act of choosing a person for a position or the process of giving the person that position. (noun)

An example of appointment is the President assigning an individual to the position of the Commissioner of the FDA.

The word refers to a meeting set at a specific time. (noun)

An example of the word appointment is when a time has been set to meet with a doctor on a specific date.

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