Usually means: Assigning someone to a position.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word Appointing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. appointing: Merriam-Webster
  2. appointing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. appointing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Appointing, appointing: Wordnik
  5. appointing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. appointing: Wiktionary
  7. Appointing, appointing: Dictionary.com
  8. appointing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Appointing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Appointing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. appointing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. appointing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. appointing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appointing: 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.
▸ Also see appoint


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