assignment

Definition

• n. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
• n. the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
• n. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
• n. an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

Word forms

Plural

assignments

Example sentences

1. n.

   I have a math assignment due next week that I need to finish.

2. n.

   In programming, an assignment is used to give a variable a specific value.