appointed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɔɪntɪd/

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• Hyphenation: ap‧point‧ed

Adjective

appointed (not comparable)

1. (of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.

   In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.

Hyponyms

• state-appointed

Verb

appointed

1. simple past tense and past participle of appoint.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”