DUTY ASSIGNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duty assignment mean? 

• DUTY ASSIGNMENT (noun)
  The noun DUTY ASSIGNMENT has 1 sense:

1. a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

  Familiarity information: DUTY ASSIGNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUTY ASSIGNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assignment; duty assignment

Context example:

hazardous duty

Hypernyms ("duty assignment" is a kind of...):

duty (work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duty assignment"):

guard; guard duty; sentry duty; sentry go (the duty of serving as a sentry)

fatigue; fatigue duty (labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on))

charge; commission; mission (a special assignment that is given to a person or group)

reassignment (assignment to a different duty)

sea-duty; service abroad; shipboard duty (naval service aboard a ship at sea)

shore duty (naval service at land bases)