assignment vs retention

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. 

retention

noun
  • The act of retaining or something retained 

  • The portion of a potential damange that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy. 

  • The act or power of remembering things 

  • The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces 

  • A memory; what is retained in the mind 

  • The length of time an individual remains in treatment 

  • The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien. 

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