recognition vs assignment

assignment vs recognition

recognition and assignment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recognition	Yes	No	No	No
assignment	Yes	No	No	No

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

recognition: designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body
assignment: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

Other hypernyms of recognition include appointment, designation, naming.

recognition (noun)	assignment (noun)
designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body	a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering	the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid	the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
coming to understand something clearly and distinctly	an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
approval	the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country	(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
(biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape
the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

Difference between recognition and assignment

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