assignment
pronunciation
How to pronounce assignment in British English:
UK [əˈsaɪnmənt]
How to pronounce assignment in American English:
US [əˈsaɪnmənt]
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- Noun:
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- 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
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
Word Origin
- assignment (n.)
- late 14c., "order, request, directive," from Old French assignement "(legal) assignment (of dower, etc.)," from Late Latin assignamentum, noun of action from Latin assignare (see assign). Meaning "appointment to office" is mid-15c.; that of "a task assigned" (to someone) is from c. 1848.
Example
- 1. Hou bo should never have got the assignment .
- 2. Two of my students cheated on a written assignment by submitting the same paper .
- 3. The assignment of candidates to types of job is , , in effect random .
- 4. This is a tougher assignment than it sounds .
- 5. Others give subordinates the autonomy to implement an assignment in their own way .