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appointment

noun as in arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting

noun as in job, position of responsibility

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The appellate court's decision came after three men facing criminal charges in New Jersey argued that the prosecutor's appointment was not lawful, the BBC's US partner CBS News reported.

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But in court, the judges focused largely on the mechanisms behind her appointment.

The Times has had a staff art critic for a hundred years, ever since the 1926 appointment of British immigrant and painter Arthur Millier, who wrote in these pages for 32 years.

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You’ll speak with an agent who can schedule an appointment or provide a referral to a trained, certified counselor in their community.

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Kennedy, 71, has no medical or government background, but since his appointment in February, he has undertaken massive changes to the nation’s many agencies tasked with keeping people alive and healthy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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