| NOUN | act | assignment, duty assignment | a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) |
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| communication | assignment | the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | |
| act | assignment, assigning | the act of distributing something to designated / designated places or persons | |
| possession | assignment, grant | (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | |
| act | assignment | an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | |
| act | assignment, appointment, designation, naming | the act of putting a person into a non-elective position |
| Sounds | ahsay'nmahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces). | |
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| Synonym | duty assignment | |
| Narrower | fatigue duty, fatigue | labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) |
| guard duty, guard, sentry duty, sentry go | The duty of serving as a sentry | |
| mission, charge, commission | A special assignment that is given to a person or group | |
| reassignment | assignment to a different duty | |
| sea-duty, service abroad, shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea | |
| shore duty | naval service at land bases | |
| Broader | duty | Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons |
| Verbs | assign | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
| Meaning | The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another. | |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Broader | legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |
| Spanish | asignación, cesión | |
| Catalan | cessión | |
| Verbs | assign | transfer one's right to |
| Meaning | The act of distributing something to designated / designated places or persons. | |
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| Example | "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" | |
| Synonym | assigning | |
| Narrower | allocation, storage allocation | (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions |
| Broader | distribution | The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| Verbs | assign | decide as to where something belongs in a scheme |
| Meaning | (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance. | |
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| Synonym | grant | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Narrower | appanage, apanage | A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family |
| land grant | A grant of public land (as to a railway or college) | |
| Broader | transferred property, transferred possession | A possession whose ownership changes or lapses |
| Spanish | cesión | |
| Catalan | cesió | |
| Verbs | assign | transfer one's right to |
| Meaning | An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor). | |
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| Narrower | school assignment, schoolwork | A school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher |
| written assignment, writing assignment | An assignment to write something | |
| Broader | undertaking, project, task, labor | Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted |
| Verbs | assign | select something or someone for a specific purpose |
| Meaning | The act of putting a person into a non-elective position. | |
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| Synonyms | appointment, designation, naming | |
| Narrower | co-option, co-optation | The act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's / appointee's consent) |
| delegacy | The appointment of a delegate | |
| nomination | The act of officially naming a candidate | |
| ordination, ordinance | The act of ordaining | |
| recognition | designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | |
| Broader | decision, determination, conclusion | The act of making up your mind about something |
| Spanish | asignación, designación, nombramiento | |
| Catalan | assignació, designació, nomenament | |
| Verbs | assign | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) |
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