as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel
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Recent Examples of assignation
Taylor was booked into the Polk County Jail on Thursday and was charged with negligent child abuse without bodily harm and soliciting another for prostitution, lewdness or assignation.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Madonna, shot in black and white, is seen walking down a hotel hallway toward an assignation, limping slightly in heels and a black raincoat, clutching her head as if in pain.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Madonna, shot in black and white, is seen walking down a hotel hallway toward an assignation, limping slightly in heels and a black raincoat, clutching her head as if in pain.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignation
Noun
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Meanwhile, for years, state legislatures have been passing laws that seek to reshape academic labor on the front end, by gutting funding for hires and imposing new criteria for appointment and retention.—
Time,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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At Intel, two interim co-CEOs were in charge this year during the three-month gap between one CEO’s departure last December and a new leader’s appointment in March.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Intel rallied over 20% in the past week and has seen a year-to-date gain of nearly 80%.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2025
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Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Sean Penn, though, didn’t need to leave his house for such a rendezvous.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Assignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignation. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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