assignment vs remedy

assignment

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

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

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

  • 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. 

remedy

noun
  • The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 

  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 

  • The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. 

verb
  • To provide or serve as a remedy for. 

How often have the words assignment and remedy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )