Definition of Assignment

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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

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

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
Annie Leibovitz

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

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
William Albert Allard

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams

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

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
Jessica Savitch

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
Charles Kuralt

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly

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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