appointment
任命,任用,任职,任期
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- : a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- : a meeting set for a specific time or place: I'm late for my appointment.
- : the act of appointing, designating, or placing in office: to fill a vacancy by appointment.
- : an office, position, or the like, to which a person is appointed: He received his appointment as ambassador to Italy.
- : Usually appointments. equipment, furnishings, or accouterments.
- : appointments, accouterments for a soldier or a horse.
- : Manège. a horse-show class in which the contestant need not be a member of a hunt but must wear regulation hunt livery.Compare Corinthian.
- : Archaic. decree; ordinance.
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He circled back later to the idea that he might build a website to help more people find appointments.
Patients could register for a slot—either online or with someone who comes to their home—and then wait to be picked for an appointment.
In the District, Nesbitt said, Giant pharmacies will be receiving some doses and will schedule appointments through the city’s website.
Holding clinics on church grounds can make getting the vaccine easier for people who do not have the ability to drive to a mass vaccination clinic or who have trouble getting online to check and recheck websites, hoping for an appointment.
Her voice cracked as she described waiting in a 400-person phone queue to sign up for a shot, only to be told all appointments were taken and she couldn’t even leave her name.
He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”
Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.
Sharpton noted that otherwise some of their mutual detractors might suggest that he had played a role in the appointment.
The appointment of Klain to lead the effort is giving the public what it wants—but not what it needs.
The appointment of the new Ebola czar comes after Republicans began demanding a White House point person on the threat.
She was helpless, because she had said nothing all day of her appointment, and because Janet had not mentioned it either.