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appoint.

an amount of small change

7 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/a.pwɛ̃/
  1. an amount of small change

    masculine
    Pour faire mille douze francs, il faut un billet de mille francs et un appoint de douze francs.
  2. money which completes a payment, balances an account

    masculine
  3. complementary support

    figuratively · masculine
    Votre concours sera un fort appoint à notre entreprise.
Where this word comes from

Deverbal of appointer. from Old French apoint (“favorable occasion; resolution, agreement”), from Old French apointier (“to work out, solve”), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”).

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