Dictionary Entry
assignment
assignment is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The writing by which an interest is transferred.
- 4noun
The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
- 5noun
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
"the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
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- 6noun
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
"the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
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- 7noun
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
"hazardous duty"
- 8noun
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- 9noun
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- 10noun
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
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