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Assignment vs Segregation - What's the difference?

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Assignment is a related term of segregation.


As nouns the difference between assignment and segregation

is that assignment is the act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks while segregation is segregation.

assignment

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
  • This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
  • We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
  • An assigned task.
  • The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
  • A position to which someone is assigned.
  • Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
  • (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
  • Mrs Smith gave out our assignments , and said we had to finish them by Monday.
  • (legal) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
  • The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
  • (legal) A document that effects this transfer.
  • Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
  • (computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
  • segregation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
  • (rfc-sense) (biology) The Mendelian Law of Segregation related to genetic transmission or geographical segregation of various species.
  • (mineralogy) Separation]] from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the [[crystallize, crystallizing process.
  • (politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
  • (sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
  • Synonyms

    *apartheid

    Derived terms

    * segregationist

    Antonyms

    * desegregation

    Anagrams

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