1. A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
   "hazardous assignment";
   - duty assignment
    
2. An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
   "The students groaned when they heard about the lengthy assignment"
    
3. The act of distributing something to designated places or persons
   "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum";
   - assigning
    
4. The act of putting a person into a non-elective position
   "the assignment had to be approved by the whole committee";
   - appointment, designation, naming
    
5. (law) the instrument by which a claim, right, interest or property is transferred from one person to another
   "The landlord signed an assignment transferring the lease to the new property owner"
    
6. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
   "The assignment of land to the university was formalized in a legal document";
   - grant
    
7. (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable
   "The programmer used an assignment to set the initial value of the counter"

Derived forms: assignments

Type of: conclusion, decision, determination, distribution, duty, instrument, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], legal document, legal instrument, official document, project, task, transferred possession, transferred property, undertaking

Encyclopedia: Assignment