'assignment' definitions:
Definition of 'assignment'
From: WordNet
noun
A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: assignment, duty assignment]
noun
The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
noun
The act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assignment, assigning]
noun
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: grant, assignment]
noun
An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
noun
The act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, assignment, designation, naming]
Synonyms of 'assignment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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