Meaning of ASSIGNATION
| Pronunciation: | | `asig'neyshun
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state"
- [n] a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
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ASSIGNATION is a 11 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling, tryst |
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| | See Also: | | deal, distribution, grant, parcel, portion, rationing, reallocation, reallotment, reapportionment, rendezvous, share, subsidisation, subsidization | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \As`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. assignatio, fr. assignare:
cf. F. assignation.]
1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
This order being taken in the senate, as touching
the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
--Holland.
2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview;
-- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a
bad sense.
While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
--Pope.
3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
{House of assignation}, a house in which appointments for
sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
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| | Related Terms: | | abalienation, accounting for, agreement, alienation, amortization, amortizement, answerability, application, appointment, arrangement, arrogation, ascription, assemblee, assembly, assignation house, assignment, at home, attachment, attribution, ball, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blame, brawl, caucus, cession, charge, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse, conferment, conferral, congregation, congress, connection with, consignation, consignment, conventicle, convention, conveyance, conveyancing, convocation, council, credit, dance, date, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, derivation from, diet, disposal, disposition, eisteddfod, enfeoffment, etiology, exchange, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, giving, honor, housewarming, imputation, lease and release, levee, love nest, meet, meeting, meeting place, palaetiology, panel, party, place of assignation, placement, plenum, prom, quorum, rally, reception, reference to, rendezvous, responsibility, saddling, sale, seance, session, settlement, settling, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, surrender, symposium, synod, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, tryst, turnout, understanding, vesting |
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