how to pronounce appoint

/əˈpɔɪnt/

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appoint is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of appoint in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… political parties appoint particular …”

meaning of appoint

To appoint someone is to put them in charge of a position.

appoint frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word appoint occurs in english on average 10.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics appoint can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that appoint can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;