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Definition of Appointments
1. appointment [n] - See also: appointment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appointments
Literary usage of Appointments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1899)
"IN June several appointments and promotions were made on the force of the Library of
... The appointments were made from the list of 323 applicants, ..."
2. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"My Interview with Lincoln About Ohio appointments —Governmental Expenses Now ...
In making the local appointments in Ohio he was naturally governed largely ..."
3. Report by Canada Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Present Condition of the Civil Service (1877)
"By the Chairman :— Q. You do not quite understand me ; you say you are in favour
of probationary appointments for one or two years; but what is the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"QUOTATIONS SCIENTIFIC appointments UNDER THE GOVERNMENT A SCIENTIFIC journal must
avoid the discussion of party politics, but it is legitimate to point out ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1902)
"PARTISAN appointments TO INSTITUTIONS FOR THE CARE OF THE INSANE. ... Even the
advocates of partisan appointments will not pretend that fitness should not ..."
6. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"appointments. "The power to appoint diplomatic agents, and to select for employment
any one out of the varieties of the class, according to his judgment of ..."
7. The Military Forces of the Crown: Their Administration and Government by Charles Mathew Clode (1869)
"The only Staff appointments which confer the Brevet Rank of Colonel are those of
Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General [if the Officers be ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"THE following promotions and appointments have been made at Brown University:
... AT Lehigh University the following nominations and appointments have been ..."
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