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How to pronounce assignation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling
Type of distribution
Has types parcel, portion, rationing, reallocation, reallotment, reapportionment, share, subsidisation, deal, subsidization, grant
Derivation assign
Type Words
Synonyms tryst
Type of rendezvous

Examples of assignation

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He would cry with shame after each assignation, and yet he did it again and again.
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The GrenadierBag a window stool on a winter's night for the perfect assignation venue.
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Baron Prus demands an assignation with Marty in return for the formula of the elixir.
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How about a letter which provides all the details of each assignation?
From the independent.co.uk
Derek was planning an assignation with his girlfriend at the empty house.
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Meanwhile, the Count is due any time for his assignation with Susanna.
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After their first on-court assignation, the pair exchanged a few words.
From the smh.com.au
This last-minute arrangement means she must text her lover, the married Jeremy, to cancel an assignation.
From the express.co.uk
Mayweather, the man who would be pound-for-pound king, books the roped ballroom for a spring assignation.
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More examples
  • A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
  • Allotment: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
  • An assignment (Latin cessio) is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. In both instances, it encompasses the transfer of rights held by one partyu2014the assignoru2014to another partyu2014the assignee. The details of the assignment determines some additional rights and liabilities (or duties).
  • The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery in a Restoration comedy written by John Dryden. The play was first acted late in 1672, by the King's Company at their theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, but was not a success with its audience.
  • An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature
  • (ASSIGNATIONS (BANKNOTES)) the first Russian paper money secured by copper coins. A. were being issued by the government from 1769 to 1843 and were considered as legal tender till the end of 1847.
  • The transfer of a right from one party to another.
  • A deed which may be used to transfer the tenant's interest in an existing Lease. A deed whereby the creditor's interest in a Standard Security may be transferred.
  • Deed assigning debts or rights to another, assigna(y); assignee