| 单词 | assignation |
| 释义 | assignation (once / 8197 pages) 1n 2n An assignation is a secret meeting. You might have an assignation with your new girlfriend if the two of you were keeping your relationship private. Any kind of clandestine meeting can be called an assignation, but it most often describes a romantic tryst. Every encounter between the two main characters in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is an assignation, since their families don't approve of their relationship. The word assignation meant "appointment by authority" in the 14th century, from the Latin assignationem, "an assigning or allotment," with the "meeting by arrangement" meaning arising in the late 17th century. WORD FAMILYassignation: assignations+/assign: assignable, assignation, assigned, assignee, assigning, assignment, assigns, reassign/assignable: unassignable/assigned: unassigned/assignee: assignees/assignment: assignments/reassign: reassigned, reassigning, reassignment, reassigns/reassignment: reassignments/unassignable: unassignably USAGE EXAMPLESRaising again and again such hierarchical assignations can, admittedly, get tiresome, but sometimes the discussion spits out new, irrepressible questions. Los Angeles Times(Oct 25, 2016) A short while later, Jones has a rebound assignation with the inveterate Lothario Daniel Cleaver. New York Times(Oct 17, 2016) He took HRC on in a game of hardball character assignation, and is only reaping the whirlwind of what he created. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) 1 n a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) 2Syn|Hyper tryst rendezvous a meeting planned at a certain time and place n the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan Syn|Hypo|Hyper allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling grant, subsidisation, subsidization the act of providing a subsidy reallocation, reallotment, reapportionmenta new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) dealthe act of apportioning or distributing something rationingthe act of rationing parcel, portion, sharethe allotment of some amount by dividing something award, awardinga grant made by a law court block granta grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs grant-in-aida grant from a central government to a local government reshufflea redistribution of something new deala reapportioning of something distribution the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
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