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. 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 See All Example Sentences for assignation
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Noun
  • Sitting members of the housing authority's board make recommendations on appointments or reappointments, which then are sent to the city's Board of Directors.
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  • Monday’s outage briefly blocked some people from scheduling doctor’s appointments and accessing banking services.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • SpaceX has launched more than 10,000 Starlink spacecraft to date, and nearly 8,750 of them remain active in LEO.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The life of a Domingo girl consists of vacations and secret rendezvous.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But as for any chance that this moon/Venus rendezvous might have any influence on our lives in any way, forget it.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Assignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignation. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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