assignment

«assignment» in Mova's school dictionary: a piece of work a teacher gives you to do, often at home… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an assignment, assignments)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «assignment» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.