assignment
IPA: ʌsˈaɪnmʌnt
noun
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- (LGBT) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- An assigned task.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
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Examples of "assignment" in Sentences
- The other assignment is a knitted hat, and I might just move on to that one.
- You panic, your term assignment is in that PC and you don't have access to it.
- By far the most common of these monitoring attempts is what I call the assignment book routine.
- I believe that this assignment is the most challenging of them all - and I believe it even more after reading the first batch of posts on this thread.
- Furthermore, if the assignment is a portrait of a TV producer or someone who created a Web site to raise funds for hurricane or tsunami relief agencies, the image requires a monitor in the frame.
- The man making the assignment is his direct supervisor, one of those cheerful mid-level managers who somehow manages to get away with statements and actions that would land others in deep trouble (the Bill Haydon of his particular spy club).
- An important assignment is to write up a TAFF trip report afterwards - which I promise to liberally illustrate (should I win) with images of major UK landmarks (Big Ben, Westminster, Tower of London, London Eye), being destroyed in dramatic and awesome ways by dragons and other giant monsters.
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