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assientists

assientists is the plural of assientist.

Meaning of assientist

Noun

assientist (plural assientists)

  1. (historical) A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
  2. (historical) One of the parties to the Assiento contract.
    • as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC

Questions about assientists

What is assientists the plural of?
Assientists is the plural of assientist.

Words near assientists in the dictionary

  1. assiege
  2. assieged
  3. assieges
  4. assieging
  5. assientist
  6. assientists
  7. assiento
  8. assientoes
  9. assientos
  10. assier
  11. assiest

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