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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

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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.

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Synonyms of assignments

  • as in tasks
  • as in missions
  • as in lessons
  • as in appointments
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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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Synonyms for school assignment

Synonyms for (noun) school assignment.

Synonyms: school assignment , schoolwork

Definition: a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher

Similar words: assignment

Definition: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

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Synonyms for assignment

  • responsibility
  • appointment
  • undertaking
  • designation
  • distribution
  • consignment
  • dealing out
  • assignation
  • apportionment

the act of distributing or the condition of being distributed

  • admeasurement
  • dispensation

the act of attributing

  • attribution

a piece of work that has been assigned

A making over of legal ownership or title, a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).

  • duty assignment

Related Words

  • sentry duty
  • fatigue duty
  • reassignment
  • service abroad
  • shipboard duty

the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

  • legal document
  • legal instrument
  • official document
  • jurisprudence

the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

  • storage allocation

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

  • transferred possession
  • transferred property

an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

  • school assignment
  • writing assignment
  • written assignment

the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

  • determination
  • co-optation
  • recognition
  • assertively
  • assertiveness
  • assertiveness training
  • asseveration
  • asseverator
  • assibilation
  • assiduousness
  • assimilable
  • assimilating
  • assimilation
  • assimilative
  • assimilator
  • assimilatory
  • assistant foreman
  • assistant professor
  • assisted suicide
  • associability
  • associableness
  • associate degree
  • Associate in Applied Science
  • Associate in Arts
  • assigned to
  • assigning to
  • Assignment (computer science)
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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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Police charge York County man with rape after teen reports sexual abuse to youth worker

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A man sexually abused a teenager multiple times during the summer of 2023, Lower Windsor Township Police allege.

Daniel K. Walton, 43, of the 100 block of Gilbert Lane, has been charged with multiple offenses, including rape forcible compulsion, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse - forcible compulsion, sexual assault and child pornography.

He is being held in York County Prison in lieu of $100,000 bail, according to court records.

Teen wrote about the sexual assault in a high school assignment: police

The teen reported the sexual abuse to a staff member at a youth group she attends. The worker made a ChildLine referral and called police, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

During a forensic interview, the teen said "he raped me" and remained quiet for about 30 seconds, the affidavit states. As she described the sexual abuse, she said Walton told her "it will be OK" and "don't tell anybody."

The teen said she told Walton multiple times to stop, the affidavit states.

Police allege Walton also took photographs of the girl from the waist down while she was not wearing clothing.

Police interviewed the youth group worker as well as five students who had knowledge of the sexual assaults, the affidavit states.

The investigator also spoke with a high school guidance counselor, who said she was contacted by a teacher. During a class assignment, students had to answer questions about themselves. One was about the scariest thing that happened to them. The teen responded: "I was sexually assaulted," the affidavit states.

Walton's attorney, George H. Margetas, said his client maintains his innocence.

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