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/əˈsaɪnmənt/.

Other forms: assignments

Whether you’re an international spy with a new mission or a high school student with math homework — when you get an assignment , you’d better do it! An assignment is a task that someone in authority has asked you to do.

The word assignment is just the noun form of the common verb assign , which you use when you want to give someone a duty or a job. When you assign something, that something is called an assignment . The word can also refer to the act of distributing something. If you are distributing new office furniture at work, you might say, “ Assignment of the new chairs will begin tomorrow.”

• noun an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) see more see less types: show 6 types... hide 6 types... school assignment , schoolwork a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher writing assignment , written assignment an assignment to write something classroom project a school task requiring considerable effort classwork the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom homework , prep , preparation preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) lesson a task assigned for individual study type of: labor , project , task , undertaking any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• noun a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) “a hazardous assignment ” synonyms: duty assignment see more see less types: show 10 types... hide 10 types... guard , guard duty , sentry duty , sentry go the duty of serving as a sentry fatigue , fatigue duty labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) charge , commission , mission a special assignment that is given to a person or group reassignment assignment to a different duty sea-duty , service abroad , shipboard duty naval service aboard a ship at sea shore duty naval service at land bases fool's errand a fruitless mission mission impossible an extremely dangerous or difficult mission martyr operation , sacrifice operation , suicide mission killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself; usually accomplished with a bomb secondment the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere type of: duty work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
• noun the act of putting a person into a non-elective position synonyms: appointment , designation , naming see more see less types: show 6 types... hide 6 types... nomination the act of officially naming a candidate co-optation , co-option the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent) delegacy the appointment of a delegate ordinance , ordination the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders recognition designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body laying on of hands laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination type of: conclusion , decision , determination the act of making up your mind about something
• noun the act of distributing something to designated places or persons “the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum” synonyms: assigning see more see less types: allocation , storage allocation (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions type of: distribution the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
• noun (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance synonyms: grant see more see less types: apanage , appanage a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family land grant a grant of public land (as to a railway or college) type of: transferred possession , transferred property a possession whose ownership changes or lapses
• noun the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another see more see less type of: instrument , legal document , legal instrument , official document (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right

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The Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act of 1887, was a law that allowed the U.S. government to take Native American tribal lands and divide them into 40 acre lots for individual Native Americans. The goal was to break up communal tribal lands and speed the assimilation of Native Americans into American society. The Dawes Act caused great suffering with much of the land winding up in the hands of white settlers.

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Thesaurus for Assignments

Related terms for assignments - synonyms, antonyms and sentences with assignments, similar meaning.

• allocations
• commissions
• appointment
• designation
• delegations
• consignments

Opposite meaning

• entertainment
• entertainments
• high level of unemployment
• high rate of unemployment
• unemployment

Common usage

• automated workforce
• engagements
• low unemployment
• empirical work
• employments
• undertakings
• specifications
• ascriptions
• identifications
• determinations
• denominations

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Proper usage in context.

• Let's hope I don't bungle any of my assignments
• Tears were splotched on all her homework assignments
• The switch seemed to cause Carey to overthink his assignments
• Confirm the replacement of assignments as prompted
• Deleting cycle will delete all assignments and jobs

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adjective as in definite

Strongest matches

Weak matches

• beyond doubt
• circumscribed
• determinate
• established

adjective as in destined

• appropriated

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adjective as in distributed

• apportioned
• spread evenly

adjective as in mandated

• requisitioned

adjective as in named

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• commissioned
• consecrated
• decided upon

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Bratton now announced that he was appointing Ramos an honorary chaplain at the 84th Precinct where he was assigned.

Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

Two police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.

To make matters worse, Jackson placed great value on regurgitating every last detail of the assigned texts.

It had been a headline case, and a task force of over a hundred detectives had been assigned to investigate.

The actor, whose name was Taylor, could not remember the name assigned to him in his part of the play.

Leave the girl to grow up in the station to which God has assigned her, no matter by whose human hands the deed was done.

An insurance policy may be assigned, though it usually contains a clause that the consent of the insurer is needful.

It is ninety-seven miles due East from the situation assigned to Dampier's Rocks.

The funds assigned some years before for the support of the civil list had fallen short of the estimate.

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Words related to assigned are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word assigned . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

adjective as in fixed, certain, positive

adjective as in en route, on the road to

adjective as in delivered

adjective as in administered

adjective as in chosen

On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assigned, such as: defined, precise, assured, beyond doubt, circumscribed, and convinced.

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Major League Baseball changed the official scoring from the bottom of the sixth inning. O'Hoppe originally reached on an error but has now been credited with a single, making it his first five-hit game of the season.

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Synonyms of assigned

• as in entrusted
• as in allotted
• as in ceded
• as in appointed
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Thesaurus Definition of assigned

Synonyms & Similar Words

• commissioned
• recommended
• distributed
• apportioned
• administered
• shared (out)
• contributed
• meted (out)
• reallocated
• parceled (out)
• redistributed
• parcelled (out)
• reapportioned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deprived (of)
• appropriated
• confiscated
• transferred
• relinquished
• disposed of
• passed (down)
• transmitted
• handed down
• surrendered
• turned over
• handed over
• expropriated
• constituted
• inaugurated
• consecrated
• singled (out)
• blackballed

Thesaurus Entries Near assigned

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“Assigned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assigned. Accessed 19 Jun. 2024.

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