appointment
- appointment
noun
1 agreement to meet sb
ADJECTIVE
▪ important, urgent
▪ first, initial
▪ follow-up
▪ scheduled
▪ missed
▪ Patients may be charged for missed appointments.
▪ business
▪ dental, dentist
▪ doctor's, medical
▪ hospital, outpatient (both esp. BrE)
▪ The hospital needs to allow more time for outpatient appointments.
▪ hair, nail
▪ therapy (esp. AmE)
VERB + APPOINTMENT
▪ have
▪ arrange, book, fix (esp. BrE), make, schedule (esp. AmE), set up
▪ I'd like to make an appointment to see the doctor, please.
▪ reschedule
▪ get
▪ I didn't know if I would get an appointment at such short notice.
▪ give sb
▪ Tom has been given an appointment at the local hospital.
▪ attend, keep
▪ He failed to keep his appointment.
▪ forget, miss
▪ She has already missed three appointments.
▪ cancel
APPOINTMENT + NOUN
▪ book, calendar (AmE)
▪ The receptionist checked the appointment book.
▪ time
▪ I assume he'll come at his usual 10 a.m. appointment time.
PREPOSITION
▪ by appointment
▪ Viewing is only allowed by appointment.
▪ with an appointment, without an appointment
▪ He called without an appointment.
▪ appointment with
▪ an appointment with a doctor
2 (esp. BrE) job/position
ADJECTIVE
▪ permanent, temporary
▪ lifetime (AmE)
▪ tenured (AmE)
▪ full-time, part-time
▪ senior
▪ public (BrE)
▪ court, judicial (both BrE, AmE)
▪ cabinet (BrE, AmE), federal (AmE), government (BrE), ministerial (BrE), political (BrE, AmE)
▪ executive
▪ academic (BrE, AmE), faculty (AmE), university
VERB + APPOINTMENT
▪ hold
▪ Employees may not hold any other appointments.
▪ give sb, offer sb
▪ He was offered an appointment in the English Department.
▪ accept
▪ get, obtain, receive
▪ take up
▪ He takes up his appointment in January.
▪ resign, resign from
▪ Ms Green resigned her appointment as our regional representative.
▪ terminate
▪ The college terminated the appointments of six professors.
▪ secure
▪ The President secured the appointment of a close friend.
3 choosing sb for job
ADJECTIVE
▪ key
▪ The company has made five key appointments at its Chicago office.
▪ formal (esp. BrE), official
▪ presidential (AmE)
▪ staff (esp. BrE)
▪ recent
▪ the recent appointment of Lars Nittves as director
▪ new
▪ They announced a series of new appointments of key security officials.
VERB + APPOINTMENT
▪ make
▪ announce
▪ confirm
▪ The board has confirmed the appointment of Howard Kendall as Sales Manager.
▪ approve
▪ block
▪ Conservatives launched a furious campaign to block his appointment.
APPOINTMENT + NOUN
▪ process
PREPOSITION
▪ appointment to
▪ the first appointments to the new government
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