assignment vs shipboard duty

shipboard duty vs assignment

assignment and shipboard duty both are nouns.

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

As nouns, shipboard duty is a hyponym of assignment; that is, shipboard 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)
shipboard duty: naval service aboard a ship at sea

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

assignment (noun)	shipboard duty (noun)
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)	naval service aboard a ship at sea
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 shipboard duty

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