assignment

  1. Noun.  the act of assigning, or an assigned task.
  2. Noun.  a position to which someone is assigned.
  3. Noun.  (education) a task given to students, homework or coursework.
  4. Noun.  (legal) a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer.
  5. Noun.  (computing) an operation that assigns a value to a variable.

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