assignment
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
Noun 4 meanings
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
“This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.”
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
“We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.”
An assigned task.
“The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.”
A position to which one is assigned.
“Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.”
Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
ASSIGNMENT at a glance
ASSIGNMENT has 10 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (A 1 + S 1 + S 1 + I 1 + G 2 + N 1 + M 3 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,199 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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