assignments

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
   • This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
   • We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
   1. The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
3. An assigned task.
   • The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
4. A position to which one is assigned.
   • Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
5. A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
   • Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

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