assignment

1. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

Definition categories: act, duty

2. the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

Definition categories: communication, instrument

3. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

- the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum

Similar word(s): assigning

Definition categories: act, distribution

4. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Similar word(s): grant

Definition categories: possession

5. an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

Definition categories: act, labor, project, task, undertaking

6. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

- This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

- We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

- The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

- Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

- Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

- The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

- Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

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