appointment

noun10

1. •
   The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust.

   • His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
2. •
   a meeting that people plan and agree on before it happens

   • They made an appointment to meet at six.
   • I’m leaving work early because I have a doctor’s appointment.
3. •
   A stipulation; an agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
4. •
   The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed.
5. •
   The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
6. •
   [in the plural] Equipment, furniture.

   • […] the house had been inhabited for years by his father, and in many of its appointments was old-fashioned and grim […] — 1846
7. •
   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.
8. •
   A decree; a direction; an established order or constitution.

   • According to the appointment of the priests. — 1611
9. •
   (US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
10. •
    (no longer used) The allowance paid to a public officer.