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

1. noun. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. The writing by which an interest is transferred.
4. noun. The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
5. noun. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

   "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

   Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming

6. noun. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

   "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"

   Synonyms: assigning

7. noun. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

   "hazardous duty"

8. noun. an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
9. noun. the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
10. noun. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

    Synonyms: grant

Synonyms

appointment, designation, naming, assigning, grant

Common word forms

assignments

Words from these letters

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