appointment

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.
2. n. The office or position to which one has been appointed.
3. n. An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place. See Synonyms at engagement.
4. n. Furnishings, fittings, or equipment.
5. n. Law The act of directing the disposition of property by virtue of a power granted for this purpose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
2. n. An office held by a person appointed: as, a high appointment in the civil service.
3. n. Stipulation; engagement; assignation; the act of fixing by mutual agreement: as, an appointment to meet at six o'clock.
4. n. Anything fixed or established; established order or constitution; decree; ordinance; direction; order; command: as, it is our duty to submit to the divine appointments.
5. n. Equipment, furniture, outfit, as for a ship, an army, a soldier, etc.; whatever is appointed for use and management; accoutrements: in this sense generally used in the plural.
6. n. The act of preparing; preparation.
7. n. An allowance to a person; a salary or pension, as of a public officer: properly used only in the plural.
8. n. In law, the act of appointing or designating the beneficiary who is to take the use of an estate created under a preceding deed or will. See appoint, 5.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
2. n. The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
3. n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
4. n. An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
5. n. Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
6. n. Law 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.
7. n. Government The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
8. n. Equipment, furniture.
9. n. US A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
2. n. The state of being appointed to som� service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
3. n. Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement.
4. n. Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
5. n. (Law) 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.
6. n. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
7. n. obsolete An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
8. n. U.S. A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a meeting arranged in advance
2. n. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
3. n. a person who is appointed to a job or position
4. n. (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment
5. n. the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed
6. n. (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)