assignment

1. is a type of: duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
   subtypes:

   • guard, guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go - the duty of serving as a sentry
   • fatigue, fatigue duty - labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
   • charge, commission, mission - a special assignment that is given to a person or group
   • reassignment - assignment to a different duty
   • sea-duty, service abroad, shipboard duty - naval service aboard a ship at sea
   • shore duty - naval service at land bases
   same as: duty assignment
2. referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
   is a type of: instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document - (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
3. is a type of: distribution - the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
   subtypes: allocation, storage allocation - (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
   same as: assigning
4. referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
   is a type of: transferred possession, transferred property - a possession whose ownership changes or lapses
   subtypes:

   • apanage, appanage - a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family
   • land grant - a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
   same as: grant
5. is a type of: labor, project, task, undertaking - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
   subtypes:

   • school assignment, schoolwork - a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher
   • writing assignment, written assignment - an assignment to write something
6. is a type of: conclusion, decision, determination - the act of making up your mind about something
   subtypes:

   • nomination - the act of officially naming a candidate
   • co-optation, co-option - the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent)
   • delegacy - the appointment of a delegate
   • ordinance, ordination - the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
   • recognition - designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
   same as: appointment, designation, naming

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