What's the difference between appoint and reappoint?
Appoint
Definition:
(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
(14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
(18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
Reappoint
Definition:
(v. t.) To appoint again.
Example Sentences:
(1) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
(2) One consequence of the Cummings memo was that the Labour peer Sally Morgan was not reappointed as chair of Ofsted’s board earlier this year, in an effort to force the pace of internal change.
(3) He especially welcomed Peres, reappointed Labour leader after Barak's resignation.
(4) He was reappointed arts spokesman after Labour's defeat in 1979.
(5) LGIM’s other funds will continue to invest as normal, but the company will use its votes at company annual meetings to oppose the reappointment of chairmen who do not do enough to reduce carbon emissions.
(6) This part of the article directs attention to how the courts respond when a physician, aggrieved by an adverse determination with regard to appointment, reappointment, or clinical privileges (credentialing) by the hospital based on medical peer review, seeks redress in the courts.
(7) Sturgeon reappointed Robison last week as cabinet secretary for health and sport , three days after Hosie and Robison announced they had separated.
(8) James Murdoch has seen off a revolt by nearly a third of BSkyB's independent shareholder to be reappointed as chairman of the satellite broadcaster at the company's annual general meeting.
(9) The American people have spoken and the American people have elected their new champion.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest How the 2016 US election night unfolded Republicans have also secured majorities in the House of Representatives, the Senate and will probably get to reappoint a fifth Republican nominee to the supreme court – potentially leaving the new president with few checks and balances.
(10) He has been a longtime ally of the Murdochs, backing the reappointment of Rupert and his sons James and Lachlan to the News Corp board amid a shareholder revolt at the company's annual general meeting in October, and has previously talked about the importance of ethics.
(11) More than 80% of shareholders voted to re-elect Lighting as a non-executive director, while over 85% voted in favour of reappointing Bailey for the rest of the year until a new chief executive is found.
(12) Last year Berkett took over a number of the responsibilities held by executive chairman Jon Mooney; as of 1 January 2011 the chairman will become completely non-executive.. Allen, who joined the board as a non-executive director in September 2008 and is up for reappointment this year, received a total remuneration package of $403,403 last year.
(13) Spencer Dale, the bank's chief economist, has been reappointed for another three years.
(14) His intervention comes after Karzai was reappointed president of Afghanistan following the decision of Abdullah, not to compete in an election runoff, arguing that Karzai planned to steal the election through fraud.
(15) The first part of this act was upheld in a federal court in Idaho (Watkins vs. Mercy Medical Center) in a case in which a doctor was denied reappointment to the medical staff of a Catholic hospital because of his refusal to abide by the Code of Ethics for Catholic Hospitals, which forbids both abortion and sterilizations.
(16) But 80% of the CEOs and business leaders at Ambrosetti Workshop said they hoped Monti could be reappointed.
(17) Murdoch faced a more substantial shareholder revolt at last year's meeting AGM, when almost 26% of investors failed to back his reappointment as BSkyB chairman, with 18.76% of them voting directly against him.
(18) Peter Dutton reappoints council on asylum seekers and detention Read more “There’s a massive number of people who just have no information, because they’ve never been provided with a lawyer and they just have no understanding of what their legal situation is,” Steward, a solicitor at Racs, says during a short break at the outreach centre in Parramatta.
(19) Some key elements of an effective credentialing system are the skills of the medical staff coordinator, the use of physician proctors to evaluate new applicants, careful investigation of applicants for initial appointment and for reappointment, and education for department chairmen.
(20) Gove has so far given few clear reasons why he decided not to reappoint Morgan after her first three-year term.