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Noun
/əˈsīnmənt/,
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assignments, plural;
  1. A task or piece of work assigned to someone as part of a job or course of study
    • - a homework assignment
  2. The allocation of a job or task to someone
    • - the effective assignment of tasks
  3. The task or post to which one has been appointed
    • - his assignment was to the County Court
    • - I was on assignment for a German magazine
  4. The attribution of someone or something as belonging
    • - the assignment of individuals to particular social positions
  5. An act of making a legal transfer of a right, property, or liability
    • - an assignment of leasehold property
  6. A document effecting such a transfer

  1. (assignment) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"
  2. (assignment) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
  3. (assignment) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
  4. (assignment) grant: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
  5. (assignment) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
  6. (assignment) appointment: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
  7. (Assignment (education)) Homework, or homework assignment, refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students do the majority of such work at home. ...
  8. (Assignment (mathematical logic)) In logic and model theory, a valuation can be: *In propositional logic, an assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables. ...
  9. (Assignment (patent)) As objects of intellectual property or intangible assets, patents and patent applications may be transferred. ...
  10. (Assignment (programming)) In computer science the assignment statement sets or re-sets the value stored in the storage location(s) denoted by a variable name. In most imperative computer programming languages the assignment statement is one of the basic statements.
  11. (Assignment (real estate)) An assignment (Latin cessio) is a term used with similar meanings in the law of contracts and in the law of real estate. In both instances, it encompasses the transfer of rights held by one party—the assignor—to another party—the assignee. ...
  12. (The Assignment (1977 film)) The Assignment (Swedish: Uppdraget ) is a 1977 Swedish drama film directed by Mats Arehn and starring Christopher Plummer, Thomas Hellberg and Carolyn Seymour. A Swedish foreign office official travels to South America on a peace-making mission. ...
  13. (Assignment) A valuation service provided as a consequence of an agreement between an appraiser and a client.
  14. (Assignment) An agreement conveying the leasehold interests, including the financial responsibilities, from one tenant to another tenant.
  15. (Assignment) Grant of property or a legal right, benefit, or privilege to another person. In colonial and medieval times the process could be lengthy, involving payment of consideration to the crown, obtaining a receipt from the treasurer, getting an auditor's certificate, getting the land ...
  16. (Assignment) The passing of beneficial rights from one party to another.
  17. (Assignment) The sale, transfer, or conveyance of all or a fraction of ownership interest or rights owned in real estate or other such property. The term is commonly used in the oil and gas business to convey working interest, leases, royalty, overriding royalty interests and net profit interests.
  18. (Assignment) A transfer of the lessee’s entire stake in the property. It is distinguishable from a sublease where the sublessee acquires something less than the lessee’s entire interest.
  19. (Assignment) A transfer in which all of the tenant's leasehold interest in a property goes to another party. Nevertheless, the original tenant remains liable unless released from future obligations by the owner.
  20. (Assignment) The method by which a right or contract is transferred.
  21. (Assignment) The receipt of an exercise notice by an options writer that requires him to sell (in the case of a call) or purchase (in the case of a put) the underlying security at the specified strike price.
  22. (ASSIGNMENT) The legal instrument whereby Oil and Gas Leases or Overriding Royalty interests are assigned/conveyed.
  23. (11. Assignment) These Terms of Service, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by PTD without restriction.
  24. (16. Assignment) We reserve the right to transfer any debt to us or other elements of our contract with you, or other liabilities in part or whole to a third party, any such assignment or transference will maintain all existing contractual terms. ...
  25. (Assignment) The transfer of rights, title and interest of goods by endorsing the bill of lading