An appointment is a time reserved for something such as a Doctor visit, much like a Reservation .
An appointment, in Government also refers to the assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a President ial appointment of a Judge to a Court . This may also happen for an office which is normally Elect ed, but has an unexpected vacancy. A person appointed but not yet in office is a '''designate'''.
The Power Of Appointment, in Law , is the ability of a Testator to select another person to dispose of the testator's property.
An appointment of Clergy, in Christianity , is made by a Bishop to a particular ministry setting, particularly in denominations which practice Episcopal forms of church government and polity (such as Anglicanism and United Methodist Church . Typically, a pastor is appointed to a particular church or parish.
Appointment is used to describe a system of selecting candidates in which the choice is made by an individual or panel rather than by a poll of the populus in general ( Election ), or through random selection ( Allotment / Sortition ) as used to select juries.
