noun

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