English-French translations for assignment

• affectation
  Gérer notre programme là-bas n'est pas la plus facile des affectations. It is not the easiest assignment to manage our programme there.
  J'en viens au règlement sur la participation financière pour l'affectation d'observateurs. Now to the regulation on financial support for the assignment of observers.
• mission
  Amsterdam nous a donné une mission très claire. Amsterdam has set a clear assignment.
  Mission confiée à un député: cf. procès-verbal Assignment conferred on a Member: see Minutes
  La durée des missions varie également. The duration of assignments also varies.
• tâche
• acte de cession
• cession
• devoir
  La démocratie est un devoir très difficile, qui offre aux citoyens une grande liberté. Democracy is a highly challenging assignment, which allows a person great freedom.
• devoir à la maison
• remise

Definition of assignment

• The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks
• The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category
• An assigned task
• A position to which someone is assigned
• A task given to students, such as homework or coursework
• A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another
• A document that effects this transfer
• An operation that assigns a value to a variable

Examples

• This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
• We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
• The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
• Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
• Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
• The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
• Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

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