assignment

[As*sign·ment]

Whether you’re an international spy with a new mission or a high school student with math homework when you get an assignment, you’d better do it! An assignment is a task that someone in authority has asked you to do.

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An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

Noun
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

Noun
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"

Noun
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"

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an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

Noun
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

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Noun
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance


n.
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

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The writing by which an interest is transferred.

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The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.


Assignment

As*sign"ment , n. [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF. assenement.] 1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. 2. (Law) (a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands. (b) The writing by which an interest is transferred. (c) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her. &hand; Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Usage Examples

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

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Other Usage Examples

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

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