assignment vs province

assignment

noun
  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

province

noun
  • An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. 

  • The parts of a country outside its capital city. 

  • An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. 

  • A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. 

  • An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order. 

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