assignment vs handover

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. 

handover

noun
  • The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another. 

  • the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel. 

  • The transfer of goods from the dealer to the purchaser, often of illegal goods. 

  • the process of transferring satellite control responsibility from one earth station to another without loss or interruption of service. 

  • The information passed on in such a case. 

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