assassinations
- 1Plural of assassination.
The political assassinations of that decade reshaped the region's leadership.
Historians still debate who ordered the assassinations of the rival senators.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable use, where each killing is a separate event: the assassinations of two senators, a wave of assassinations. When the word names the practice in general, as in assassination as a political tool, it stays singular and takes no plural. The form itself is regular, built with -s on a noun formed from assassinate.
assassinations is a form of assassination
assassination, noun: The deliberate murder of someone, typically a public figure, carried out for political motives or for personal gain. Full entry
- Forms
- assassinationassassinations plural
- Spelling
- assassination → assassinations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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