"assignment" in the noun sense
1. assignment, duty assignment
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces
"hazardous duty"
2. assignment
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
3. assignment, assigning
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
"the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
4. grant, assignment
law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
5. assignment
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
6. appointment, assignment, designation, naming
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
"the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
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