reassignmentn.
/ˌriːəˈsʌɪnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈsaɪnmənt/ The fact of having been reassigned; a new or different assignment.
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society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > again or to former owner
reassignment1650
reconveyance1768
retrotransference1829
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > ordinance, prescription, or appointment
besight1258
ordainmenta1325
constitution1393
assignationa1400
signmentc1425
appointmentc1440
steveningc1440
pointingc1449
ordinationc1450
instituting1534
prescription1542
prescribement1563
assignment1597
nomination1597
designation1609
consignation1650
reassignment1650
reassignation1655
consignmenta1668
appunctuation1768
destination1868
allocation1876
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. x. 216 Seeing those limits were afterward discomposed by a new division and re-assignment of them to this Tribe..those antiquated borders are rendered the less remarkable.
1791 S. Kyd Treat. Law of Awards v. 135 An award, ‘that..the defendant shall re-assign the land mortgaged to him by the plaintiff’, is sufficiently certain, though it do not say for what term the reassignment shall be.
1884 Law Times 76 333/2 If the assignor paid his debt he would be entitled to re~assignment.
1960 Amer. Speech 35 216 Hoenigswald recognizes the following types of sound change:..split from reassignment of noncontrasting phones.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 2/4 The Appeals Court..ordered reassignment of 20,000 to 30,000 students..to achieve racial balance.
1994 Time 7 Mar. 34/1 His reassignment at Langley was a counternarcotics posting that seemed low-grade for a man of his experience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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