assignment

1. A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) (synset 100731545)
   "hazardous duty"
   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. The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another (synset 106557519)
   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. The act of distributing something to designated places or persons (synset 100165166)
   "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
   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. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance (synset 113275136)
   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. An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) (synset 100798247)
   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. The act of putting a person into a non-elective position (synset 100164600)
   "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
   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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