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English

Etymology

to assign + -ment

Pronunciation

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Noun

the act of assigning, or an assigned task
a position to which someone is assigned
a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer
an operation that assigns a value to a variable

Translations

Finnish: toimeksianto

Portuguese: pauta (in journalism)

Finnish: toimeksianto, työtehtävä

Finnish: oikeuden luovutus

Czech: přiřazení
Finnish: arvon asetus

French: affectation

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Assignment \As*sign"ment\, n. [LL. assignamentum: cf. OF.
assenement.]
1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or
use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in
court.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Law)
(a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of
lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of
the whole of some particular estate or interest in
lands.
(b) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
(c) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain
persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the
benefit of creditors.
[1913 Webster]

Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of
the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's
estate, and allotting it to her.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with
specification; assignment of error in proceedings for
review being specification of error; and assignment of
perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of
perjury or fraud.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet assignment
n 1: a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the
armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: 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: assigning]
4: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: grant]
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, designation, naming]

Moby Dictionary
abalienation , accession , accounting for , agency , agentship ,
alienation , allocation , allotment , amortization , amortizement ,
anointing , anointment , answerability , application , appointment ,
apportionment , appropriation , arrogation , ascription , assignation ,
assumption , attachment , attribution , authority , authorization ,
bargain and sale , barter , bequeathal , blame , brevet , busywork ,
care , cession , chalk talk , chare , charge , chore , collocation ,
commendation , commission , commissioning , commitment , conferment ,
conferral , connection with , consecration , consignation ,
consignment , conveyance , conveyancing , coronation , credit , cure ,
deeding , delegated authority , delegation , deliverance , delivery ,
demise , denomination , deployment , deposit , deposition , deputation ,
derivation from , designation , determination , devoir , devolution ,
devolvement , discourse , disposal , disposition , disquisition ,
distribution , duty , earmarking , election , embassy , emplacement ,
empowerment , enfeoffment , entrusting , entrustment , errand ,
etiology , exchange , executorship , exequatur , exercise , exposition ,
factorship , fish to fry , fixing , full power , giving , giving out ,
harangue , homework , homily , honor , imputation , incumbency ,
infeodation , infeudation , instruction , job , job of work ,
jurisdiction , labor , lading , lease and release , lecture ,
lecture-demonstration , legation , legitimate succession , lesson ,
liability , license , lieutenancy , loading , localization , locating ,
location , make-work , mandate , matters in hand , mission , moral ,
moral lesson , morality , moralization , naming , nomination ,
object lesson , obligation , odd job , office , ordainment , ordination ,
packing , palaetiology , piece of work , pinning down , pinpointing ,
placement , placing , plenipotentiary power , position , positioning ,
post , posting , power of attorney , power to act , preachment ,
precision , procuration , project , proxy , purview , putting , recital ,
recitation , reference to , regency , regentship , relegation ,
remanding , reposition , responsibility , saddling , sale , seizure ,
selection , sermon , service , set task , setting aside , settlement ,
settling , signification , situation , skull session , specification ,
spotting , stationing , stint , stipulation , storage , stowage ,
succession , surrender , tabbing , tagging , taking over , talk , task ,
teaching , things to do , trading , transfer , transference ,
transferral , transmission , transmittal , trust , trusteeship ,
usurpation , vesting , vicarious authority , warrant , work

FOLDOC assignment

Storing the value of an expression in a
variable. This is commonly written in the form "v = e". In
Algol the assignment operator was ":=" (pronounced
"becomes") to avoid mathematicians qualms about writing
statements like x = x+1.

Assignment is not allowed in functional languages, where an
identifier always has the same value.

See also referential transparency, single assignment,
zero assignment.

(1996-08-19)

ASSIGNMENT, contracts. In common parlance this word signifies the transfer of all kinds of property, real, personal, and mixed, and whether the same be in possession or in action; as, a general assignment. In a more technical sense it Is usually applied to the transfer of a term for years; but it is more properly used to signify a transfer of some particular estate or interest in lands. 2. The proper technical words of an assignment are, assign, transfer, and set over; but the words grant, bargain, and sell, or any other words which will show the intent of the parties to make a complete transfer, will amount to an assignment. 3. A chose in action cannot be assigned at law, though it may be done in equity; but the assignee takes it subject to all the equity to which it was liable in the hands of the original party. 2 John. Ch. Rep. 443, and the cases there cited. 2 Wash. Rep. 233. 4. The deed by which an assignment is made,, is also called an assignment. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t. Vin. Ab. h.t.; Nelson's Ab. h.t.; Civ. Code of Louis. art. 2612. In relation to general assignments, see Angell on Assignments, passim; 1 Hate & Wall. Sel. Dec. 78- 85. 5. By an assignment of a right all the accessories which belong to it, will pass with it as, if the assignor of a bond had collateral security, or a lien on property, the collateral security and the lien will pass with the assignment of the bond. 2 Penn. 361; 3 Bibb, 291; 4 B. Munroe, 529; 2 Drev. n. 218; 1 P. St. R. 454. 6. The assignment of a thing also carries with it all that belongs to it by right of accession; if, therefore, the thing produce interest or rent, the interest or the arrearages of the rent since the assignment, will belong to the assignee. 7 John. Cas. 90 6 Pick. 360.