n. | 1. | The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. | |||
2. | An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; - used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. | ||||
3. | A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
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Noun | 1. | assignation - a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) Synonyms: tryst |
2. | assignation - 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" |
ASSIGNATION, Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.
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