Dictionary Definition
assignment
Noun
1 a duty that you are assigned to perform
(especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: duty
assignment]
2 the instrument by which a claim or right or
interest or property is transferred from one person to
another
3 the act of distributing something to designated
places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address
to each datum" [syn: assigning]
4 (law) a transfer of property by deed of
conveyance [syn: grant]
5 an undertaking that you have been assigned to
do (as by an instructor)
6 the act of putting a person into a non-elective
position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole
committee" [syn: appointment, designation, naming]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
act of assigning, or an assigned task
- Finnish: toimeksianto
- Portuguese: pauta (in journalism)
position to which someone is assigned
- Finnish: toimeksianto, työtehtävä
transfer of something from one person to
another, especially property, or a claim or right
- Finnish: oikeuden luovutus
operation that assigns a value to a variable
- Czech: přiřazení
- Finnish: arvon asetus
- French: affectation
Extensive Definition
Assignment may refer to:
- Assignment (computer science), modification of the value of a variable in a computer program
- Assignment (education) and extra work assigned to be completed by the assignee at home (see also coursework)
- Assignment (law), transfer of rights or property from one person or entity to another
- Assignment (mathematical logic), auxiliary notion
- Assignment problem, finding a maximum weight matching in a weighted bipartite graph
- The Assignment, 1997 film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley
- "The Assignment" (DS9 episode), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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