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      assignments
      noun
      The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
      An assigned task.
      (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
      The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
      (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
      A position to which someone is assigned.
      (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.
      Roots
      signumsign- · Latin · mark, sign
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