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单词 assignment
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assignmentnoun

uk/əˈsaɪn.mənt/us/əˈsaɪn.mənt/

B1 [ C ] a piece of work given to someone, typically as part of their studies or job:

a freelance/photo assignment
I have a lot of reading assignments to complete before the end of term.

[ C ] a job that someone is sent somewhere to do:

a foreign/diplomatic assignment
on assignment

Someone who is on assignment is doing a particular job or piece of work, usually in a particular place where they have been sent for a period of time:

Both journalists were killed by terrorists while on assignment in the region.

[ U ] the process of giving a particular job or piece of work to someone, or of sending someone to a chosen place to do a job:

assignment of the various tasks

More examples

  • It was a jammy assignment - more of a holiday really.
  • He took this award-winning photograph while on assignment in the Middle East.
  • His two-year assignment to the Mexico office starts in September.
  • She first visited Norway on assignment for the winter Olympics ten years ago.
  • He fell in love with the area after being there on assignment for National Geographic in the 1950s.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Work, working and the workplace

  • a long way to go idiom
  • act as sth 1
  • act as sth
  • all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
  • bandh
  • cabin
  • hoop
  • hot desk
  • hot-desking
  • hotelling
  • housekeeping
  • in the line of duty idiom
  • labour
  • slouch
  • spadework
  • stroke
  • sweat
  • sweat over sth
  • swing into action idiom
  • temp

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Giving, providing and supplying
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