Appoint



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.任命, 指定
• ［英］ v.任命, 指定 ( name for an office or position)
• ［类］ appoint : official / cast : actor ( 任命官员 / 委派演员)

Webster Collegiate

verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French appointer, from a- (from Latin ad-) + point point
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to fix or set officially appoint a trial date
    • b. to name officially will appoint her director of the program
    • c. archaic arrange
    • d. to determine the disposition of (an estate) to someone by virtue of a power of appointment
  • 2. to provide with complete and usually appropriate or elegant furnishings or equipment a beautifully appointed room
• intransitive verb
  • to exercise a power of appointment
• Synonyms: see furnish

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