Assignment

1. n. The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
2. n. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
3. n. 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.
4. n. The writing by which an interest is transferred.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.