| assignment | | |
| n. (act) | 1. assignment, duty assignment | a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).; "hazardous duty" |
| ~ duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.; "the duties of the job" |
| ~ guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go, guard | the duty of serving as a sentry.; "he was on guard that night" |
| ~ fatigue duty, fatigue | labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on).; "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues" |
| ~ mission, charge, commission | a special assignment that is given to a person or group.; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (communication) | 2. assignment | the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another. |
| ~ legal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (act) | 3. assigning, assignment | the act of distributing something to designated places or persons.; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" |
| ~ storage allocation, allocation | (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions. |
| ~ distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning. |
| n. (possession) | 4. assignment, grant | (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ transferred possession, transferred property | a possession whose ownership changes or lapses. |
| ~ apanage, appanage | a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family.; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families" |
| ~ land grant | a grant of public land (as to a railway or college). |
| n. (act) | 5. assignment | an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor). |
| ~ school assignment, schoolwork | a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher. |
| ~ project, task, undertaking, labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.; "he prepared for great undertakings" |
| ~ writing assignment, written assignment | an assignment to write something. |
| n. (act) | 6. appointment, assignment, designation, naming | the act of putting a person into a non-elective position.; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" |
| ~ decision, determination, conclusion | the act of making up your mind about something.; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly" |
| ~ nomination | the act of officially naming a candidate.; "the Republican nomination for Governor" |
| ~ 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.; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" |
| ~ recognition | designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body.; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman" |
| homework | | |
| n. (act) | 1. homework, prep, preparation | preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home). |
| ~ school assignment, schoolwork | a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher. |
| ~ didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching | the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" |
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