English-Spanish translations for assignment

• tarea
  La duración de las tareas también varía. The duration of assignments also varies.
  La ONU tiene aquí una tarea más urgente que en Iraq. The United Nations has a more urgent assignment here than in Iraq.
  Actualmente, la Comisión está aumentando el personal asignado a la Oficina con objeto de permitirle realizar todas sus tareas. However, the assignment and training of personnel will inevitably take time.
• cesión
  Deberíamos dejar claro que la cesión total sin cláusulas de renovación ya no es admisible y uno de los precios que las compañías de grabación tienen que pagar por cualquier ampliación. We should be making it clear that assignment for life without renewal clauses is no longer acceptable, and one of the prices recording companies must pay for any extension.

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.

Related words

• assignment of guilt
• sex reassignment surgery
• gender reassignment
• sex reassignment