POWER OF APPOINTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power of appointment mean? 

• POWER OF APPOINTMENT (noun)
  The noun POWER OF APPOINTMENT has 1 sense:

1. authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property

  Familiarity information: POWER OF APPOINTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER OF APPOINTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("power of appointment" is a kind of...):

authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so (the power or right to give orders or make decisions)