REASSIGNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassignment mean? 

• REASSIGNMENT (noun)
  The noun REASSIGNMENT has 1 sense:

1. assignment to a different duty

  Familiarity information: REASSIGNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASSIGNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assignment to a different duty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reassignment" is a kind of...):

assignment; duty assignment (a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces))

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

secondment (the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere)

Derivation:

reassign (transfer somebody to a different position or location of work)