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Definition of Assignment
Assignment

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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.

The writing by which an interest is transferred.

The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.

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Assignment Quotations

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.
Martin Short

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Assignment Translations

assignment in French is adjonction
assignment in German is Zuweisung, Verwendung, Zuordnung
assignment in Spanish is utilizacion
assignment in Swedish is uppdrag


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