assignat

From French assignat.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈasɪɡnat/, /asɪˈnja/

assignat (plural assignats)

1. (historical) A banknote used during the French Revolution, on the security of state land.
   • Burke

     They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.

   • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 25:

     He was in favour of a national bank; he was strongly opposed to the reckless issue of assignats and spoke against it in the Assembly.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 508:

     The continuing depreciation of the assignat was worsening problems: in November and December, the currency's cash return dipped below 1 per cent of its face value, bringing a comic aspect to many exchanges and inducing street beggars to decline alms in paper form.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.siɡˈnat/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.siɡˈnat/
• Rhymes: -at

assignat m (feminine assignada, masculine plural assignats, feminine plural assignades)

1. past participle of assignar

From assign(er) +‎ -at.

• IPA^(key): /a.si.ɲa/

assignat m (plural assignats)

1. (historical) assignat

• “assignat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

assignat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of assignō