assignment

Everyday

1. An assignment is a piece of work a teacher gives you to do, often at home or over several days. tree →
2. A job or task someone is given at work. tree →
3. (formal) Giving something to someone or putting it in a place: the assignment of seats. tree →

In the lessons

Very common at school (hand in your assignment, due date), in jobs (a reporter's assignment) and in spy stories (a secret assignment); in computing, assigning a value to a variable.

Examples

• Our science assignment is about volcanoes. tree →
• Hand in your assignments on Friday. tree →
• The reporter was on assignment in Kenya. tree →
• The spy accepted a dangerous assignment. tree →
• I finished the maths assignment early. tree →
• The assignment of tables was done by drawing names. tree →

Note

Verb: assign. Countable. Spelling: the g is silent: as-SIGN-ment. Similar: homework (uncountable: no «a homework»), task, project.