assignment
Pronunciation: /əˈsaɪn.mənt/
The English word “assignment” has 9 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An assigned task.
- A position to which one is assigned.
- A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- A document that effects this transfer.
- An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
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