| 单词 | assignment |
| 释义 | assignment (once / 1129 pages) n 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.” WORD FAMILYassignment: assignments+/assign: assignable, assignation, assigned, assignee, assigning, assignment, assigns, reassign/assignable: unassignable/assignation: assignations/assigned: unassigned/assignee: assignees/reassign: reassigned, reassigning, reassignment, reassigns/reassignment: reassignments/unassignable: unassignably USAGE EXAMPLESIf his players weren’t at practice, meals, or meetings, he wanted them resting, visualizing their assignments on the field. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Hawks: F Mike Scott was assigned to the Long Island Nets of the NBA Development League, his third D-League assignment of the season. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) I recently visited Tokyo for the first time while working on an assignment for The Washington Post Magazine. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1n an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) Hypo|Hyper school assignment, schoolwork a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher writing assignment, written assignmentan assignment to write something classroom projecta school task requiring considerable effort classworkthe part of a student's work that is done in the classroom homework, prep, preparationpreparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) lessona task assigned for individual study labor, project, task, undertaking any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted 2n a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) a hazardous assignment Syn|Hypo|Hyper duty assignment guard, guard duty, sentry duty, sentry go the duty of serving as a sentry fatigue, fatigue dutylabor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on) charge, commission, missiona special assignment that is given to a person or group reassignmentassignment to a different duty sea-duty, service abroad, shipboard dutynaval service aboard a ship at sea shore dutynaval service at land bases fool's erranda fruitless mission mission impossiblean extremely dangerous or difficult mission martyr operation, sacrifice operation, suicide missionkilling or injuring others while annihilating yourself; usually accomplished with a bomb secondmentthe detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere duty work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons 3n the act of putting a person into a non-elective position Syn|Hypo|Hyper appointment, designation, naming nomination the act of officially naming a candidate co-optation, co-optionthe act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent) delegacythe appointment of a delegate ordinance, ordinationthe act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders recognitiondesignation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body laying on of handslaying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination conclusion, decision, determination the act of making up your mind about something 4n the act of distributing something to designated places or persons the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum Syn|Hypo|Hyper assigning allocation, storage allocation (computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions distribution the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning 5n (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance Syn|Hypo|Hyper grant apanage, appanage a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family land granta grant of public land (as to a railway or college) transferred possession, transferred property a possession whose ownership changes or lapses 6n the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another Hyper instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |
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