assignment

Plural

assignments

1. 1.The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   • This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. 2.The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   • We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. 3.An assigned task.

   • The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. 4.A position to which one is assigned.

   • Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

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