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appoint
verb as in assign responsibility; decide
Example Sentences
Netanyahu appointed him in February to lead the Israeli negotiating team for Gaza talks.
He was not appointed by the government – but he says that both Hamas and the Fatah political movement, the dominant party in the Palestinian authority, respected him.
Only 39 days after being appointed, the 60-year-old became the shortest serving permanent Premier League manager.
The West Kowloon Cultural District is run by a statutory body whose members are appointed by the government.
Wilcox has challenged her firing in court, arguing that appointed board members can only be fired for “malfeasance or neglect of duty.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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