assignment
noun
[ əˈsʌɪnm(ə)nt ]
• a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study.
• "a homework assignment"
Similar:
task,
piece of work,
piece of business,
job,
duty,
chore,
charge,
labour,
function,
commission,
mission,
errand,
engagement,
occupation,
undertaking,
exercise,
business,
office,
responsibility,
detail,
endeavour,
enterprise,
piece of research,
project,
homework,
prep,
• the allocation of someone or something as belonging to a particular group or category.
• "the assignment of individuals to particular social positions"
Similar:
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,
parcelling out,
rationing out,
dividing out,
dividing up,
dispensation,
measuring out,
meting out,
divvying up,
• an act of making a legal transfer of a right or liability.
• "an assignment of leasehold property"
Similar:
transfer,
making over,
giving,
passing on,
handing down,
conveyance,
consignment,
alienation,
demise,
devise,
attornment,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French assignement, from medieval Latin assignamentum, from Latin assignare ‘allot’ (see assign).
