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assignment

[uh-sahyn-muhnt]

noun

  1. something assigned, as a particular task or duty.

    She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.

    Synonyms: ,
  2. a position of responsibility, post of duty, or the like, to which one is appointed.

    He left for his assignment in the Middle East.

    Synonyms: ,
  3. an act of assigning; appointment.

  4. Law.

    1. the transference of a right, interest, or title, or the instrument of transfer.

    2. a transference of property to assignees for the benefit of creditors.



assignment

/ əˈɪԳəԳ /

noun

  1. something that has been assigned, such as a mission or task

  2. a position or post to which a person is assigned

  3. the act of assigning or state of being assigned

  4. law

    1. the transfer to another of a right, interest, or title to property, esp personal property

      assignment of a lease

    2. the document effecting such a transfer

    3. the right, interest, or property transferred

  5. law (formerly) the transfer, esp by an insolvent debtor, of property in trust for the benefit of his creditors

  6. logic a function that associates specific values with each variable in a formal expression

  7. history a system (1789–1841) whereby a convict could become the unpaid servant of a freeman

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Other Word Forms

  • misassignment noun
  • nonassignment noun
  • reassignment noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of assignment1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English assignament, from Medieval Latin 峾Գٳܳ. See assign, -ment
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Synonym Study

See task.
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Example Sentences

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The next assignment for Pat Cummins' side is a three-Test tour of West Indies which starts in Barbados on 25 June.

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The test of how America responds in real time to the wholesale attack on its second-largest demographic group is now a shared assignment.

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“As we purchased our building and came into this moment of thinking about the next century, it felt like there was a very big assignment with this season,” Feldman said.

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Josaiah Stewart quickly studied the assignment, focused intensely, and went to work.

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“This is particularly true in school contexts, when the learning that happens inside the student is far more important than the finished product they produce on a given assignment,” Warner wrote.

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