Word Meanings - ASSIGNMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: ASSIGNMENT

1. 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. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her. Note: Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSIGNMENT)

• Allotment
• Piece
• assignment
• parcel
• award
• apportionment

Related words: (words related to ASSIGNMENT)

• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• AWARDER
  One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PARCEL-MELE
  By parcels or parts. Chaucer.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• ALLOTMENT
  The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. (more info) 1. The act of allotting; assignment.
• PARCELING
  Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc. (more info) 1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
• PARCEL
  A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. 3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.
• APPORTIONMENT
  The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.
• PARCEL POST
  That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and
• AWARD
  To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.
• ASSIGNMENT
  1. 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
• PIECENER
  1. One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills. 2. Same as Piecer, 2.
• PIECE
  One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. 6. A castle; a fortified building. Spenser. Of a piece, of the same sort, as if taken from the same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster,
• PIECEWORK
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.
• VAWARD
  The fore part; van. Since we have the vaward of the day. Shak.
• SEAPIECE
  A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture. Addison.
• SEAWARD
  Directed or situated toward the sea. Donne. Two still clouds . . . sparkled on their seaward edges like a frosted fleece. G. W. Cable.
• SIDEPIECE
  The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.
• MISALLOTMENT
  A wrong allotment.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.