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noun as in responsibility, task

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  • appointment

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noun as in selecting or setting apart

  • distribution
  • apportionment
  • appropriation
  • assignation
  • attribution
  • authorization
  • consignment
  • designation
  • determination
  • specification
  • stipulation

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noun as in matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity

  • circumstance
  • office function
  • responsibility
  • transaction
  • undertaking

noun as in job, position of responsibility

  • officeholder
  • representative

noun as in arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting

  • consultation

noun as in allocation, setting aside

  • setting apart

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Yariel Valdés González and I faced these challenges while on assignment in South Florida and the Deep South from July 21-Aug.

They’re putting time into decoration just as they would in their physical classroom, and students can interact with the space by, say, clicking on a bookshelf to get a reading assignment.

For now, if the district moves to in-person learning, instruction in Carlsbad will take place on campus five days per week and students may engage in additional independent practices and other assignments at home.

The assignments must also respect the relationships between the elements in the group.

It’s very hard, by the way, to do real random assignment studies of couples therapy.

His most recent assignment was the 84th Precinct, at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.

When Lewis was shipped off to Vietnam, his son was just three months old, and the timing of the assignment worried Lewis.

When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and Cirque du Soleil was only a few years old.

“For our winter issue, we gave ourselves one assignment: Break The Internet,” wrote Paper.

By the 1950s the rapid assignment of gender to an ambiguously gendered infant had become standard.

Consent to an assignment may be given by the president of the company, without formal vote by the directors.

A transfer by the lessee of the whole or a part of his interest for a part of the time is a sublease and not an assignment.

An assignment to one who has an insurable interest as relative, creditor and the like, is always valid.

When an assignment of it is made, the assignee may sue in his own name for rent accruing after the assignment.

In some states statutes forbid the assignment of such policies for the benefit of creditors.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assignment, such as: appointment, chore, drill, duty, homework, and job.

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Synonyms of 'assignment' in British English

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  • as in tasks
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Thesaurus Definition of assignments

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • responsibilities
  • undertakings
  • enterprises
  • commissions
  • requirements
  • obligations
  • commitments
  • appointments
  • constraints
  • designations
  • nominations
  • compulsions
  • installments
  • delegations
  • authorizations
  • investments
  • installations
  • instalments
  • destinations
  • emplacements
  • ordinations
  • deputations
  • investitures
  • anointments

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • depositions
  • dismissions
  • dethronements

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“Assignments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignments. Accessed 2 Apr. 2024.

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Special assignment Synonyms

Special replaced.

  • particular assignment
  • unusual assignment
  • extra assignment
  • personal assignment
  • different assignment
  • primary assignment
  • important assignment

Definitions for Special

  • (adjective) being the one or ones of a class with no other members
  • (adjective) granted special treatment or attention
  • (adjective) of a particular or exact sort

Synonyms for phrase

  • particular task
  • specific job
  • specific task
  • particular mission
  • specific mission
  • certain task
  • particular job
  • particular designation
  • particular duty
  • certain mission
  • exceptional job
  • extra mission
  • specific duty
  • exceptional duty
  • limited distribution
  • particular distribution
  • individual job
  • particular grant
  • specific distribution

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Assignment replaced.

  • special mission
  • special task
  • special function
  • special job
  • special position
  • special designation
  • special work
  • special exercise
  • special obligation
  • special office
  • special stint
  • special commission

Definitions for Assignment

  • (noun) a piece of work that needs to be done regularly
  • (noun) a specific task with which a person or group is charged
  • (noun) something assigned to be read or studied
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Definition of assignment noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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  • 2 [ uncountable ] the act of giving something to someone; the act of giving someone a particular task his assignment to other duties in the same company

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