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Meaning of assignment

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  assignment
      n 1: a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the
           armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: {assignment}, {duty
           assignment}]
      2: the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or
         property is transferred from one person to another
      3: the act of distributing something to designated places or
         persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to
         each datum" [syn: {assignment}, {assigning}]
      4: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn:
         {grant}, {assignment}]
      5: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an
         instructor)
      6: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
         "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
         [syn: {appointment}, {assignment}, {designation}, {naming}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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