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assignment - a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" |
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duty work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"
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guard,
guard duty,
sentry duty,
sentry go a position on a basketball team
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fatigue,
fatigue duty (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "political fatigue"
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charge,
commission,
mission an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
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reassignment assignment to a different duty
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sea-duty,
service abroad,
shipboard duty naval service aboard a ship at sea
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shore duty naval service at land bases
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assignment - an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) |
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labor,
project,
task,
undertaking productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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schoolwork,
school assignment a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher
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writing assignment,
written assignment an assignment to write something
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assignment - 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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assigning |
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distribution the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
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allocation,
storage allocation (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
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assignment - the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another |
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instrument,
legal document,
legal instrument,
official document the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease"
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jurisprudence,
law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
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