- something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- a position of responsibility, post of duty, or the like, to which one is appointed: He left for his assignment in the Middle East.
- an act of assigning; appointment.
- Law.
- the transference of a right, interest, or title, or the instrument of transfer.
- a transference of property to assignees for the benefit of creditors.
- something that has been assigned, such as a mission or task
- a position or post to which a person is assigned
- the act of assigning or state of being assigned
- law
- the transfer to another of a right, interest, or title to property, esp personal property
- the document effecting such a transfer
- the right, interest, or property transferred
- (formerly) the transfer, esp by an insolvent debtor, of property in trust for the benefit of his creditors
- a function that associates specific values with each variable in a formal expression
- a system (1789–1841) whereby a convict could become the unpaid servant of a freeman
