- as·sign·mentIPA[əˈsīnmənt]
noun
1. a task or piece of work assigned to someone as part of a job or course of study:
a homework assignmentSynonym : task, piece of work, piece of business, job, duty, chore, charge, labor, function, commission, mission, errand, engagement, occupation, undertaking, exercise, business, office, responsibility, detail, endeavor, enterprise, piece of research, project, homework, prep2. the allocation of a job or task to someone:
the effective assignment of tasks3. the task or post to which one has been appointed:
his assignment was to the County Court I was on assignment for a German magazine4. the attribution of someone or something as belonging:
the assignment of individuals to particular social positionsSynonym : allocation, allotment, issuing, issuance, awarding, grant, granting, administration, earmarking, designation, setting aside, budgeting, sharing out, apportionment, distribution, handing out, dealing out, doling out, giving out, dishing out, parceling out, rationing out, dividing out, dividing up, dispensation, measuring out, meting out, divvying up5. an act of making a legal transfer of a right, property, or liability:
an assignment of leasehold propertySynonym : transfer, making over, giving, passing on, handing down, conveyance, consignment, alienation, demise, devise, attornment6. a document effecting the legal transfer of a right or property.
Variation
n.: noun: assignment, plural noun: assignments
noun
a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:the allocation of a job or task to someone: