assignment
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
An assigned task.
The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
A position to which someone is assigned.
Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
A document that effects this transfer.
Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
An operation that assigns a value to a variable.