Usually means: Deliberate killing of prominent person.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. assassination: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. assassination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assassination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. assassination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Assassination, assassination: Wordnik
  6. assassination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. assassination: Wiktionary
  8. Assassination, assassination: Dictionary.com
  9. assassination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. AssassiNation (Krisiun album), Assassination (disambiguation), Assassination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Assassination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. assassination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. assassination: Rhymezone
  14. Assassination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. assassination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. assassination: Free Dictionary
  17. assassination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. assassination: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. assassination: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. assassination: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Assassination: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)
  2. assassination: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assassination: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See assassinate as well.)

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noun:  The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

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