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assignats

assignats is the plural of assignat.

Meaning of assignat

Noun

assignat (plural assignats)

  1. (historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land.
    • If the landed man wishes to mortgage, he falls the value of his land, and raises the value of assignats.1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 196

Questions about assignats

What is assignats the plural of?
Assignats is the plural of assignat.

Words near assignats in the dictionary

  1. assignability
  2. assignable
  3. assignat
  4. assignation
  5. assignations
  6. assignats
  7. assigned
  8. assigned risk
  9. assigned servant
  10. assigned servants
  11. assignee

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