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assignment
 
NOUN:1. The act of attributing: ascription, attribution, credit, imputation. See GIVE. 2. The act of distributing or the condition of being distributed: admeasurement, allocation, apportionment, dispensation, distribution, division. See COLLECT. 3. Law. A making over of legal ownership or title: Law : alienation, conveyance, grant, transfer, transferal. See LAW. 4. A piece of work that has been assigned: chore, duty, job, office, stint, task. See WORK.
 
 
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