assignment

Plural: assignments

Noun

• a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
• the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
• the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
  • "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
• (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
• an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
• the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
• The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
• The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
• The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
• The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
• An assigned task.
• A position to which someone is assigned.
• A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
• A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
• A document that effects this transfer.
• An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Examples

• Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
• Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
• The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
• The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
• This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
• Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
• We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

Synonyms

appointment, assigning, designation, duty assignment, grant, naming