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Appoint

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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Manner of action 13

Accredit 76% connected

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Authorize 76% connected

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Delegate 76% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Depute 76% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

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Deputize 76% connected

To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

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Designate 76% connected

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Empower 76% connected

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Nominate 76% connected

To mention by name; to name.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Constitute 76% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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Equip 76% connected

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Found 76% connected

of Find

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Institute 76% connected

Established; organized; founded.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Outfit 76% connected

A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; thin…

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Plant 76% connected

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Appointee 74% connected

A person appointed.

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Appointee 74% connected

A person appointed.

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Appointive 74% connected

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.

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Appointive 74% connected

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.

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Synonym 4

Charge 92% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Constitute 92% connected

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Nominate 92% connected

To mention by name; to name.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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