3syllables
appointed
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Definitions ofappointed
1verb
- To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- To name (someone to a post or role).
- To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
1adjective
- (of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
Example: "In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position."
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