Appointment vs Vacancy - What's the difference?
appointment | vacancy |
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.
Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
(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.
(Government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
Equipment, furniture.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :
(US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
An unoccupied position or job.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Empty space.
*1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
*:Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
As nouns the difference between appointment and vacancy
is that appointment is the act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust while vacancy is an unoccupied position or job.appointment
English
(wikipedia appointment)Noun
(en noun)- He erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
- the appointment of treasurer
- They made an appointment to meet at six.
- I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment .
- To submit to the divine appointments .
- According to the appointment of the priests. --Ezra vi. 9.
- The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.
