Assignment vs. Delegation
Assignmentnoun
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
Assignmentnoun
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
Assignmentnoun
An assigned task.
Assignmentnoun
A position to which someone is assigned.
Assignmentnoun
(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Assignmentnoun
(legal) A transfer of something from one person to another, especially property, or a claim or right.
Assignmentnoun
(legal) A document that effects this transfer.
Assignmentnoun
(computing) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Assignmentnoun
An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Assignmentnoun
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.
Assignmentnoun
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces);
Assignmentnoun
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
Assignmentnoun
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons;
Assignmentnoun
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
Assignmentnoun
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
Assignmentnoun
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
Delegationnoun
An act of delegating.
Delegationnoun
A group of delegates used to discuss issues with an opponent.
Delegationnoun
(computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
Delegationnoun
(legal) A contract whereby the original debtor substitutes a new debtor in his stead, with the creditor’s permission.
Delegationnoun
The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.
Delegationnoun
One or more persons appointed or chosen, and commissioned to represent others, as in a convention, in Congress, etc.; the collective body of delegates; as, the delegation from Massachusetts; a deputation.
Delegationnoun
A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him.
Delegationnoun
a group of representatives or delegates
Delegationnoun
authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
Delegation
Delegation is the assignment of authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is the process of distributing and entrusting work to another person.
