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