assignment

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign +‎ -ment. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ Rhymes: -aɪnmənt Hyphenation: a‧ssign‧ment === Noun === assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments) The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. An assigned task. A position to which someone is assigned. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. (law) A document that effects this transfer. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable. ==== Hyponyms ==== (programming): augmented assignment ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Chinese == === Alternative forms === asm (pseudo-acronym) === Etymology === From English assignment. === Pronunciation === === Noun === assignment (Hong Kong Cantonese) assignment; homework; coursework (Classifier: 份 c) ==== Synonyms ==== === References === Bauer, Robert S. (2021), ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 10 English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese