Assignment

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

The writing by which an interest is transferred.

The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.

the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"