assignment vs sentry duty

sentry duty vs assignment

assignment and sentry duty both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assignment	Yes	No	No	No
sentry duty	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sentry duty is a hyponym of assignment; that is, sentry duty is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than assignment:

assignment: a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
sentry duty: the duty of serving as a sentry

Other hyponyms of assignment include guard, guard duty, sentry go, fatigue, fatigue duty, charge, commission, mission, reassignment, sea-duty, service abroad, shipboard duty, shore duty.

assignment (noun)	sentry duty (noun)
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)	the duty of serving as a sentry
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Difference between assignment and sentry duty

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