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Arrangement vs. Appointment

Arrangement and Appointment Definitions

Arrangement

The act or process of arranging
The arrangement of a time and place for the meeting.

Appointment

The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.

Arrangement

The condition, manner, or result of being arranged; disposal
Provided flowers and saw to their arrangement.

Appointment

The office or position to which one has been appointed.

Arrangement

A collection of things that have been arranged
The circular arrangement of megaliths called Stonehenge.

Appointment

An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place.
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Arrangement

Often arrangements A provision or plan made in preparation for an undertaking
Made arrangements for surgery.

Appointment

Appointments Furnishings, fittings, or equipment.

Arrangement

An agreement or settlement; a disposition
Our dog will be looked after by arrangement with a neighbor.

Appointment

(Law) The act of directing the disposition of property by virtue of a power granted for this purpose.

Arrangement

An adaptation of a composition for other instruments or voices or for another style of performance.

Appointment

The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
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Arrangement

A composition so arranged.

Appointment

The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
The appointment of treasurer

Arrangement

The act of arranging.

Appointment

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.

Arrangement

The manner of being arranged.

Appointment

An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
They made an appointment to meet at six.
I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment.
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Arrangement

A collection of things that have been arranged.

Appointment

(religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
To submit to the divine appointments.

Arrangement

A particular way in which items are organized.

Appointment

(law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

Arrangement

(in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.

Appointment

(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

Arrangement

An agreement.

Appointment

(in the plural) Equipment, furniture.

Arrangement

(music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.

Appointment

(US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
To have an appointment

Arrangement

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

Appointment

(obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.

Arrangement

The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.

Appointment

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

Arrangement

Preparatory proceeding or measure; preparation; as, we have made arrangement for receiving company.

Appointment

The state of being appointed to som service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.

Arrangement

Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

Appointment

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.

Arrangement

The adaptation of a composition to voices or instruments for which it was not originally written.

Appointment

Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
According to the appointment of the priests.

Arrangement

The thing arranged or agreed to;
They made arrangements to meet in Chicago

Appointment

The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

Arrangement

An orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging;
A flower arrangement

Appointment

Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments.
I'll prove it in my shackles, with these handsVoid of appointment, that thou liest.

Arrangement

An organized structure for arranging or classifying;
He changed the arrangement of the topics
The facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original
He tried to understand their system of classification

Appointment

An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; - properly only in the plural.
An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary.

Arrangement

The spatial property of the way in which something is placed;
The arrangement of the furniture
The placement of the chairs

Appointment

A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.

Arrangement

A piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments

Appointment

The act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
The appointment had to be approved by the whole committee

Arrangement

The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

Appointment

A meeting arranged in advance;
She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date

Appointment

(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

Appointment

A person who is appointed to a job or position

Appointment

The job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed;
He applied for an appointment in the treasury

Appointment

(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment;
She allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment

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