assignment

assignment has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The writing by which an interest is transferred.
• n.. The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
• n.. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
• n.. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
• n.. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"
• n.. an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
• n.. the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
• n.. (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance