Assignment

noun

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   "This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee."

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   "We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers."

3. An assigned task.

   "The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging."

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   "Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion."

5. A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   "Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday."