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
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- 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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