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RELATED WORDS : duty assignment reading assignment school assignment writing assignment written assignment

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun assignment has 6 senses

• assignment(n = noun.act) duty assignment - a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"
is a kind of duty
has particulars: guard, guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go, fatigue, fatigue duty, charge, commission, mission, reassignment, sea-duty, service abroad, shipboard duty, shore duty
Derived form verb assign₁

• assignment(n = noun.communication) Array - the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another; Array
is a kind of instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document
Derived form verb assign₇

• assignment(n = noun.act) assigning - the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
has particulars: allocation, storage allocation
is a kind of distribution
Derived form verb assign₈

• assignment(n = noun.possession) grant - (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance; Array
is a kind of transferred possession, transferred property
has particulars: apanage, appanage, land grant
Derived form verb assign₇

• assignment(n = noun.act) Array - an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor); Array
has particulars: school assignment, schoolwork, writing assignment, written assignment
is a kind of labor, project, task, undertaking
Derived form verb assign₄

• assignment(n = noun.act) appointment, designation, naming - the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
is a kind of conclusion, decision, determination
has particulars: nomination, co-optation, co-option, delegacy, ordinance, ordination, recognition
Derived form verb assign₁

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THESAURUS

assignment

abalienation, accession, accounting for, agency, agentship, alienation, allocation, allotment, amortization, amortizement, anointing, anointment, answerability, application, appointment, apportionment, appropriation, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assumption, attachment, attribution, authority, authorization, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blame, brevet, busywork, care, cession, chalk talk, chare, charge, chore, collocation, commendation, commission, commissioning, commitment, conferment, conferral, connection with, consecration, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, coronation, credit, cure, deeding, delegated authority, delegation, deliverance, delivery, demise, denomination, deployment, deposit, deposition, deputation, derivation from, designation, determination, devoir, devolution, devolvement, discourse, disposal, disposition, disquisition, distribution, duty, earmarking, election, embassy, emplacement, empowerment, enfeoffment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, etiology, exchange, executorship, exequatur, exercise, exposition, factorship, fish to fry, fixing, full power, giving, giving out, harangue, homework, homily, honor, imputation, incumbency, infeodation, infeudation, instruction, job, job of work, jurisdiction, labor, lading, lease and release, lecture, lecture-demonstration, legation, legitimate succession, lesson, liability, license, lieutenancy, loading, localization, locating, location, make-work, mandate, matters in hand, mission, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, naming, nomination, object lesson, obligation, odd job, office, ordainment, ordination, packing, palaetiology, piece of work, pinning down, pinpointing, placement, placing, plenipotentiary power, position, positioning, post, posting, power of attorney, power to act, preachment, precision, procuration, project, proxy, purview, putting, recital, recitation, reference to, regency, regentship, relegation, remanding, reposition, responsibility, saddling, sale, seizure, selection, sermon, service, set task, setting aside, settlement, settling, signification, situation, skull session, specification, spotting, stationing, stint, stipulation, storage, stowage, succession, surrender, tabbing, tagging, taking over, talk, task, teaching, things to do, trading, transfer, transference, transferral, transmission, transmittal, trust, trusteeship, usurpation, vesting, vicarious authority, warrant, work

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assignment

Commission

N commission, delegation, consignment, assignment, procuration, deputation, legation, mission, embassy, agency, agentship, power of attorney, clerkship, surrogacy, errand, charge, brevet, diploma, exequatur, permit, appointment, nomination, designation, return, charter, ordination, installation, inauguration, investiture, swearing-in, accession, coronation, enthronement, vicegerency, regency, regentship, viceroy, consignee, deputy, agent, delegate, consignee, commissioned, per procurationem.

Transfer

N transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution, alienable, negotiable, estate coming into possession.

Apportionment

N apportionment, allotment, consignment, assignment, appointment, appropriation, dispensation, distribution, division, deal, repartition, partition, administration, dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose, dole, meed, pittance, quantum, ration, ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance, suerte, apportioning, respective, respectively, each to each.

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