assignment
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
duty assignment
business-trip
official journey
pointing at
share-out
giving in charge
abdication
legal transfer
transfer ownership
assign a value
yield
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a‧ssign‧ment
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈsaɪnmənt/
Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.
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