Assignment
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of assigning, or an assigned task a position to which someone is assigned a task given to students, homework or coursework a transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right; the document that effects this transfer an operation that assigns a value to a variable
Example sentence: It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
Assigning
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To designate or set apart something for some purpose.