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assignments

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  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.”

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