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UK
/ɐsɪɡnˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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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 - a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
How To Use assignation In A Sentence
- And so, with great delight, the two close friends set out to prove they have lost none of their pluck or zest for life and through various assignations and mistaken identities turn the tables beautifully on Falstaff.
- Initials meant secret assignations, though there were no locations.
- He had already made a few assignations with the lowlife drug dealers who frequented the place.
- Two dancers in white make a classical assignation, she on pointe, he in heroic blouson.
- Lead the production team to assemble and commission assignation ; and participate in the daily work.
- Casual beard-related how's your father assignations? Times, Sunday Times
- His assignation with her was for eight the following evening, after the first day of the Congress, and she expected to have him off the premises by midnight, whereafter I would roll up to see that all was well, she would write her report, and we would enjoy a late supper and whatever else came to mind before I left with her despatch in my hat for transfer to Blowitz later in the day. Watershed
- This was no other than an expedient of the painter to awaken his dulcinea, with whom he had made an assignation, or at least interchanged such signals as he thought amounted to a firm appointment. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- Was it designed to implicate as many individuals as possible in the killings, and thus to make any future assignation of responsibility for specific acts of genocide just about impossible?
- These foreigners come here, drop notes of assignation into sentries' top-boots, pin fivers on to guardsmen's bearskins.