unassignment

Taking duties away

Unassignment is the act of removing someone or something from a previously assigned role, task, or position.

In workplace and project management contexts, it refers to taking a person off an assignment: The unassignment of three developers left the project understaffed.

In software systems, unassignment removes a value or connection from a variable or record.

administrative

reallocation

Distributing anew

transfer · displacement · release · termination · dismissal · deallocation · redistribution · reshuffling · demotion · relieving

error

misassignment

Incorrect distribution of duties

  • oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
  • glitchMinor system fault
  • bugCrawling creature or defect

miscommunication · anomaly · irregularity · slipup · malfunction · miscalculation · inconsistency · misallocation · mixup · clerical error

Opposites
delegation/allocation status

unassignmentassignment

Allocated work or duty

assign · delegation · allocation · appointment · assigning

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