land grant vs assignment

land grant and assignment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
land grant	Yes	No	No	No
assignment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, assignment is a hypernym of land grant; that is, assignment is a word with a broader meaning than land grant:

Other hypernyms of land grant include grant.

land grant (noun)	assignment (noun)
a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)	a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
	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