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noun as in responsibility, task

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  • appointment

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noun as in selecting or setting apart

  • distribution
  • apportionment
  • appropriation
  • assignation
  • attribution
  • authorization
  • consignment
  • designation
  • determination
  • specification
  • stipulation

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noun as in matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity

  • circumstance
  • office function
  • responsibility
  • transaction
  • undertaking

noun as in job, position of responsibility

  • officeholder
  • representative

noun as in arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting

  • consultation

noun as in allocation, setting aside

  • setting apart

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Yariel Valdés González and I faced these challenges while on assignment in South Florida and the Deep South from July 21-Aug.

They’re putting time into decoration just as they would in their physical classroom, and students can interact with the space by, say, clicking on a bookshelf to get a reading assignment.

For now, if the district moves to in-person learning, instruction in Carlsbad will take place on campus five days per week and students may engage in additional independent practices and other assignments at home.

The assignments must also respect the relationships between the elements in the group.

It’s very hard, by the way, to do real random assignment studies of couples therapy.

His most recent assignment was the 84th Precinct, at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.

When Lewis was shipped off to Vietnam, his son was just three months old, and the timing of the assignment worried Lewis.

When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and Cirque du Soleil was only a few years old.

“For our winter issue, we gave ourselves one assignment: Break The Internet,” wrote Paper.

By the 1950s the rapid assignment of gender to an ambiguously gendered infant had become standard.

Consent to an assignment may be given by the president of the company, without formal vote by the directors.

A transfer by the lessee of the whole or a part of his interest for a part of the time is a sublease and not an assignment.

An assignment to one who has an insurable interest as relative, creditor and the like, is always valid.

When an assignment of it is made, the assignee may sue in his own name for rent accruing after the assignment.

In some states statutes forbid the assignment of such policies for the benefit of creditors.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assignment, such as: appointment, chore, drill, duty, homework, and job.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

1. after-school

  • Rhymes with School-assignment

2. assignment

3. assignment, 4. assignment.

  • School-assignment in a sentence

adjective. outside regular school hours.

Rhymes with School Assignment

  • reassignment
  • realignment
  • consignment
  • confinement

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).

  • service abroad
  • duty assignment
  • shipboard duty
  • fatigue duty
  • assignement (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.

  • official document
  • legal instrument
  • irresoluteness

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the act of distributing something to designated places or persons.

  • distribution
  • negative charge
  • positive charge

noun. ['ˈskuːl'] an educational institution.

  • secondary school
  • public school
  • veterinary school
  • schoolteacher
  • finishing school
  • educational institution
  • graduate school
  • direct-grant school
  • dance school
  • elementary school
  • religious school
  • Sabbath school
  • night school
  • conservatory
  • middle school
  • secretarial school
  • riding school
  • technical school
  • school teacher
  • private school
  • driving school
  • flying school
  • Sunday school
  • training school
  • grammar school
  • dancing school
  • grad school
  • language school
  • correspondence school
  • grade school
  • primary school
  • school of nursing
  • schole (Middle English (1100-1500))

noun. ['ˈskuːl'] a building where young people receive education.

  • schoolhouse
  • school system
  • conservatoire
  • trade edition

noun. ['ˈskuːl'] the process of being formally educated at a school.

  • unbreakableness

noun. ['ˈskuːl'] a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers.

  • pointillism
  • historical school
  • deconstructivism
  • art nouveau
  • Ashcan School

verb. ['ˈskuːl'] educate in or as if in a school.

  • home-school
  • imperfection

noun. ['ˈskuːl'] the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session.

  • period of time
  • time period

Sentences with school-assignment

1. Noun Phrase If you've been nagging your teen to tidy his room, only to find he's spent the afternoon online, messaging friends and tinkering with a school ," aria-label="Link to assignment ,"> assignment , it's easy to call this laziness.

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school assignment, schoolwork noun

a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher

Synonyms: schoolwork

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  • school-work

colorful, optimist, motivation

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Thesaurus Definition of assignments

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • responsibilities
  • undertakings
  • enterprises
  • commissions
  • requirements
  • obligations
  • commitments
  • appointments
  • constraints
  • designations
  • nominations
  • compulsions
  • installments
  • delegations
  • authorizations
  • investments
  • installations
  • instalments
  • destinations
  • emplacements
  • ordinations
  • deputations
  • investitures
  • anointments

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • depositions
  • dismissions
  • dethronements

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Definition of assignment noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

  • Students are required to complete all homework assignments.
  • You will need to complete three written assignments per semester.
  • a business/special assignment
  • I had set myself a tough assignment.
  • on an assignment She is in Greece on an assignment for one of the Sunday newspapers.
  • on assignment one of our reporters on assignment in China
  • The students handed in their assignments.
  • The teacher gave us an assignment on pollution.
  • Why did you take on this assignment if you're so busy?
  • He refused to accept the assignment.
  • assignment on

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    planning. facility. equipping. arrangement. establishment. partitionings. rationings. more . "There could be a risk that the position of the guarantor could be impaired, for instance, where assignment of proceeds to a third party disrupts mutuality of obligations between the guarantor and the beneficiary.".

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    Etymology. assignement (Old French (842-ca. 1400)) 3. assignment . noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.

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    Students are required to complete all homework assignments. You will need to complete three written assignments per semester. a business/special assignment ; I had set myself a tough assignment. on an assignment She is in Greece on an assignment for one of the Sunday newspapers. on assignment one of our reporters on assignment in China