appointing
Sayuh-POYN-ting/əˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of appoint.
The mayor is appointing three new members to the planning committee.
Appointing a qualified successor proved harder than the directors expected.
Note
One spelling doing two jobs. After be it builds the progressive (is appointing). As a noun it can stand as subject or object while still taking its own object, as in appointing a successor. Put the before it and the object needs of: the appointing of a successor. It carries every sense of appoint: naming someone to a post, fixing a meeting's time, fitting out a place, or designating who takes property.
appointing is a form of appoint
appoint, verb: To name someone to a post or official role. Full entry
- Spelling
- appoint → appointing: add -ing
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