Assignment - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position (syn: appointment, designation, naming)
Extra examples
The students were given a homework assignment.
The reporter's assignment is to interview the candidate.
The reporter is here on an assignment.
The reporter is here on assignment.
The article discusses the recent assignment of senators to some of the more powerful committees.
She asked if she could change her seating assignment.
The correspondent was on assignment in the Far East.
She's gone to Italy on a special assignment.
He was killed while on assignment abroad.
We each did the homework assignment, then compared answers.
The teacher paired students with partners for the assignment.
...your assignment is to write two poems about springtime...
Your assignment is to write a 500-word essay on one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
He's fussing about his new assignment.
...her commendably prompt fulfillment of any assignment given her...
Word forms
singular: assignment
plural: assignments
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