assignment, duty assignment -- (a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty")
assignment -- (the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another)
assignment, assigning -- (the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum")
grant, assignment -- ((law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance)
assignment -- (an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor))
appointment, assignment, designation, naming -- (the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee")