Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - appointment

(appointments) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it. ...his appointment as foreign minister in 1985. N-VAR: usu with poss, oft N to/as n 2. An appointment is a job or position of responsibility. Mr Fay is to take up an appointment as a researcher with the Royal Society. = post N-COUNT 3. If you have an appointment with someone, you have arranged to see them at a particular time, usually in connection with their work or for a serious purpose. She has an appointment with her accountant... ...a dental appointment. N-COUNT: oft N with n, N to-inf 4. If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time. Viewing is by appointment only. PHRASE