Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A renewed or repeated assignment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of reassigning.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of reassigning; a second or subsequent assignment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun assignment to a different duty

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Examples

  • School Education: Goods, facilities and services protection against discrimination because of gender reassignment is extended to include school education.

    Looking back, pushing forward 2009

  • School Education: Goods, facilities and services protection against discrimination because of gender reassignment is extended to include school education.

    Equality Bill 2008-09 2009

  • The process of gender reassignment is not something undertaken lightly.

    Pre-Existing Marriage Campaign Survey 2009

  • Gender reassignment is covered (in part or in full) by some autonomous communities in Spain, but at present the government is not pursuing this issue on the national level, preferring to leave the decision to local governments.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006

  • He was referring to the reassignment of Boston Public Schools' longtime director of food and nutrition services.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • Unfortunately, while they helpfully list intersex conditions that are allowed in "female" events, they don't define those that are disallowed, except in the case of sex reassignment, which is what the policy seems intended to address.

    Philip N. Cohen: After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult 2010

  • Unfortunately, while they helpfully list intersex conditions that are allowed in "female" events, they don't define those that are disallowed, except in the case of sex reassignment, which is what the policy seems intended to address.

    Philip N. Cohen: After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult 2009

  • ANDERSON: After her so called reassignment, Paris issued a statement reading, quote, "I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope others have learned from my mistakes."

    CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007 2007

  • Under the agreement, teachers the city is trying to fire will no longer be sent to the rubber rooms, known as reassignment centers, where the teachers show up every school day, sometimes for years, doing no work and drawing full salaries.

    NYT > Home Page By JENNIFER MEDINA 2010

  • Under the agreement, teachers the city is trying to fire will no longer be sent to the rubber rooms, known as reassignment centers, where the teachers show up every school day, sometimes for years, doing no work and drawing full salaries.

    Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog Whitney Tilson 2010

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