Synonyms:
appoint, name, nominate, constitute
Meaning: create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee"
Synonyms:
appoint, charge
Meaning: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Usage examples
How am I to set about it? To whom can I apply to appoint others?
"That's the reason I asked Grace to appoint a committee of juniors and come out here with me.
He may make, but he cannot conclude, a treaty; he may designate, but he cannot appoint, a public officer.
Didn't I appoint us a committee of two to do the work?" Her voice shook, and her chin trembled like that of a grieved child.
"And we," he added, "with our whole council, think it right strange that ye, who be but brutes and inexpert folk, do take upon you to appoint us who be meet or not for our council."
In France the Crown was almost supreme in such matters; the Queen therefore determined to appoint a "Council of Conscience" consisting of five members, whose business it would be to help her with advice as to ecclesiastical preferment.
Then, I would suggest that you set up some agency to handle all the details. And, as soon as you have enacted the abolition of slavery, which should be this afternoon, appoint a committee, say a dozen of you, to confer with Count Erskyll and myself.