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Assignment   /əsˈaɪnmənt/   Listen
Assignment

noun
1.
A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).  Synonym: 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.  Synonym: assigning.
4.
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.  Synonym: 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.  Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming.



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"Assignment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Frenchmen already replies to ours. They must have transshipped, at night, from their positions on the canal to L., in the belief that mighty forces were being assembled here for a further tremendous blow. The object of our assignment would in that case already have been for the most part accomplished. But all of us subordinate officers—who neither possess nor should possess an insight into the strategic movement—we have ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... sleeping, standing guard, tugging at the wheel or defending life and property,— there was no rank between captain and cook, employer and employed, savant and ignoramus, but the distribution of duty and the assignment of responsibility. Toil and exposure, hunger and thirst, wind and storm, danger in camp quarrel or Indian ambush, were the familiar and ordinary vicissitudes of a three months' journey in ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... reluctant to send the hated message. Orne had enlisted in the Marak Marines at age seventeen—a runaway from home—and his mother had given post-enlistment consent. Two years later: scholarship transfer to Uni-Galacta, the R&R school here on Marak. Five years of school and one R&R field assignment under his belt, and he had been drafted into the I-A for brilliant detection of militancy on Hammel. ...
— Operation Haystack • Frank Patrick Herbert
... as these, we have to answer that in that case sexual abstinence, and also chastity and morality, may depend upon a pathological inheritance. Just as we are unable to regard eunuchs as exceptionally virtuous individuals, so also must we be cautious in our assignment of moral motives for the sexual abstinence of young men of ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll
... called Johnson, a Yorkshireman, in a convalescent ward of one of the big hospitals. He was recovering from an illness he had incurred in the trenches, and was not quite ready to go back to active duty. But he was well enough to play for me, and delighted when he heard he might get the assignment. He was nervous lest he should not please me, and feared I might ask for another man. But when I ran over with him the songs I meant to sing I found he played the piano very well indeed, and had a knack ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder


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