Usually means: Assigns someone to a position.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word appoints:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. appoints: Merriam-Webster
  2. appoints: Collins English Dictionary
  3. appoints: Vocabulary.com
  4. Appoints, appoints: Wordnik
  5. appoints: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. appoints: Wiktionary
  7. appoints: Dictionary.com
  8. appoints: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. appoints: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appoints: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appoints: Idioms

(Note: See appoint as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (appoint)

verb:  (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
verb:  (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
verb:  (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
verb:  (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
verb:  (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
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