"appointed" meaning in English

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          "text": "In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position."
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        "Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election."
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        "(of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election."
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          "text": "One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”",
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        "simple past and past participle of appoint."
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        "(of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election."
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