An appointment is a formal arrangement to meet or visit somebody. To me, that means you and somebody else took a decision about when to meet; for example, that would be the case for a dental appointment.
In your case, I would use next meetings.
As side note, in British English date also means "an arrangement to meet somebody at a particular time"; in all the English dialects, date also means "romantic meeting."
To "take off" in this context means to not go to your job.
To "rest" means to stop working for a period of time.
The ideas are related. Often a person will take off from work so that he can rest.
I can see how reading a definition might be confusing. I carefully used the word "job" above, but we often refer to a person's job as his "work". So you could say that "take off" means to not work, and "rest" means to not work. But we're using "work" here with two different definitions. In the first case we mean "show up at the office or factory where you have a job". In the second case we mean "exert yourself, perform a task which requires effort".
You might take off from work (i.e. from your job) to do a home improvement project. The home improvement might be much more difficult and strenuous than your job, so you wouldn't say you are resting. You can take off but not rest.
Or you could take a break while at your job and rest for a while. Maybe you get a cup of coffee, or chat with co-workers about football. You are not "working" in the sense of exerting yourself, but you are "at work". Or maybe you're just lazy and although you show up at the office, you just sit around and chat on forums. (Oh, wait ...) You can rest but not take off.
Note that "take off" has (at least) two other totally unrelated meanings: It can mean to remove something, often an article of clothing. "Please take off your hat when you enter the building." It is also used to refer to the launching of an airplane or spacecraft. "The airplane will take off in 10 minutes."
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Meeting on a weekly basis only requires that you meet each week. The meeting can be held:
at a specific time and place, or
at a specific time but different places, or
at different times but the same place, or
at different times and different places.
Where the meetings are held at different times and/or different places, the time and/or place for the next meeting will usually be decided before the end of the current meeting.
In a business context, weekly meetings are usually scheduled for a specific time and place.