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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp

Meaning of "assignation" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ASSIGNATION

From Old French, from Latin assignātiō a marking out.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSIGNATION

assignation  [ˌæsɪɡˈneɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSIGNATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assignation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ASSIGNATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Assignment (law)

An assignment 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 party—the assignor—to another party—the assignee. The details of the assignment determines some additional rights and liabilities. Typically a third-party is involved in a contract with the assignor, and the contract is in effect transferred to the assignee. For example, a borrower borrows money from a local bank. The local bank receives a mortgage note and can thereafter transfer that note to a financial institution in exchange for a lump-sum of cash, thereby assigning the right to receive payment from the borrower to another entity. Mortgages and lending contracts are relatively amenable to assignment since the lendor's duties are relatively limited; other contracts which involve personal duties such as legal counsel may not be assignable. The related concept of novation is not assignment; rather than assigning only the rights to another party, novation involves the replacement of the original party with a new party or the replacement of the original contract with a new contract.

Definition of assignation in the English dictionary

The definition of assignation in the dictionary is a secret or forbidden arrangement to meet, esp one between lovers. Other definition of assignation is the act of assigning; assignment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSIGNATION


combination
ˌkɒmbɪˈneɪʃən
contamination
kənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən
coordination
kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən
designation
ˌdɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən
destination
ˌdɛstɪˈneɪʃən
determination
dɪˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən
discrimination
dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃən
domination
ˌdɒmɪˈneɪʃən
donation
dəʊˈneɪʃən
elimination
ɪˌlɪmɪˈneɪʃən
examination
ɪɡˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən
explanation
ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən
illumination
ɪˌluːmɪˈneɪʃən
imagination
ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃən
nation
ˈneɪʃən
nomination
ˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən
origination
ɒˌrɪdʒɪˈneɪʃən
resignation
ˌrɛzɪɡˈneɪʃən
termination
ˌtɜːmɪˈneɪʃən
vaccination
ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSIGNATION

assiduous
assiduously
assiduousness
assiege
assiento
assign
assignability
assignable
assignably
assignat
assignee
assigner
assignment
assignor
assimilability
assimilable
assimilably
assimilate
assimilation
assimilationism

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSIGNATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation

Synonyms and antonyms of assignation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «ASSIGNATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «assignation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of assignation

Translation of «assignation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSIGNATION

Find out the translation of assignation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assignation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assignation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

幽会
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

asignación
570 millions of speakers

English

assignation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नियुक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التخصيص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

передача имущества
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assignation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্থিরীকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attribution
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penugasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stelldichein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

割り当て
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대입
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assignation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự chia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறியிடம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असाइनमेंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assegnazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przypisanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

передача майна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atribuire
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

μεταβιβαση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afspraak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

assignation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assignation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assignation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSIGNATION»

The term «assignation» is regularly used and occupies the 88.282 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSIGNATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assignation

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QUOTES WITH «ASSIGNATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word assignation.
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Quentin Crisp
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSIGNATION»

Discover the use of assignation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assignation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Assignation
Forty-four short, compact stories by a contemporary master of the genre build from simple setting to enormous emotional intensity
Joyce Carol Oates, 1996
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Reckless Assignation
A haunted and abandoned hotel is the setting for a very private party between two lovers, one of them a world-class, sophisticated intelligence operative who's trying to teach his young and innocent lady that curiosity can sometimes take ...
Denysé Bridger, 2013
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Assignation At Vanishing Point
Poetry. ASSIGNATION AT VANISHING POINT by Jane Satterfield is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Third Annual Poetry Awards. This is her second book of poetry.
Jane Satterfield, 2003
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The Assignation
I. The. Assignation. Stay for me there! I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale. Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester. LL- FATED and mysterious man!— bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own and fallen in ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Lemur Books, 2014
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An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the ...
... payment of which was not then come ; and having once acquired it, in consequence of the wife's assignation implied in marriage, that assignation will support the husband's right to them, even after the term of payment is elapsed f- TlTLE III.
John Erskine, James Ivory, 1824
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Factoring: The Law and Practice of Invoice Finance
The first two stages in this process are frequently telescoped together64 and the effect of the assignation is to complete the personal right to the debt in the assignee as between the assignor and the assignee. To effect the assignation there ...
Freddy R. Salinger, 2006
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Thirty-two Stories
"The Assignation " is a convincing exercise in Byronic romanticism. It incorporates a poem which Poe wrote in the style of Byron, and which, as Mabbott (9, II) puts it, "is closely related to lines Byron wrote out for Mary Chaworth, " Byron's first ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine, 2000
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The decisions of the Court of Session: from its first ...
M'Math having found an assignation by Kilspindie to Lumsden, dated the 17th day of April 1638, amongst the writs of Alexander Douglas* writer, who was ordinary for Kilspindie, it was alleged for her, That the pretence of error in the date and ...
Scotland. Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison, 1811
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The decisions of the Lords of council & session, in the most ...
Agnes Hodden md Mary Ladder comxzShorsioeod. Eodemdie. T Homos S her/ wood having granted an Assignation to a Bond of 500. merks in favours of Agnes Hodden and Mary Lawderi they pursue Magdulen Shorfwocd, his neatest of kin, ...
James Dalrymple, 1683
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Digest of Cases Decided in the Courts of Session, Teinds, ...
Circumstances in which a party was preferred to another, without formal intimation of an assignation. Grant, Feb. 5, 1828 ; 6 S. D. 489. 2. Equipollent*. 12. An assignee barred from pleading a preference over certain ground rents, he having ...
Patrick Shaw, 1834

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSIGNATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term assignation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Steps to get duplicate investment documents
... the original document, while others such as making an assignation in an insurance policy will require the document to be submitted. Even if ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
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Aliaksandr Alesin: If we lose the army we can also lose the power …
The dismissal of the State Secretary of the Security Council Aliaksandr Miazhueu and assignation of the Acting State Secretary Stanislau Zas' ... «EuroBelarus, Jul 15»
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American history according to student bloopers
The First World War was caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist. World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»
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'Vendetta': Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa at war
He even hired call girls to try to seduce either Kennedy and then “gather evidence of the assignation with hidden recorders or cameras. «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
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Single Carefree Mellow review: Katherine Heiny's sharp debut story …
Sex scenes with her lover are interspersed with cosy domesticity with fiance Rhodes: once, she returns home from an assignation to find him ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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Get a pizza the action at the Mozzarella Bar in Seddon
At first blush the name seems a misnomer, as mozzarella doesn't have its own assignation on the carte. But it, of course, features on the 18-odd ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
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Nicole Crites
She won an Emmy for her field anchoring of the deadly Tucson shooting and assignation attempt of then Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords ... «KPHO Phoenix, Jul 15»
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Are Hotels Dangerous?
... hotel lobbies have been the places of chance encounter and planned assignation, places where high-end prostitutes went trolling for affluent ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Modern Pulp Spy Thriller CODENAME BABOUSHKA To Deliver …
For that, she has to carry out the assignation of a crime lord and attend the conclave herself. Not to give too much away, but things start to ... «Newsarama, Jul 15»
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Classic Shakespeare meets modern politics
“The play presents the argument of the assignation as much as the tragedy.” Also starring in “#Caesar” is Chantrel Jossart, Ryan Schwalm, ... «The Union of Grass Valley, Jul 15»

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