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# assignment

noun (an assignment, assignments)

«assignment» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An assignment is a piece of work a teacher gives you to do, often at home or over several days. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#m1)
2. A job or task someone is given at work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#m2)
3. (formal) Giving something to someone or putting it in a place: the assignment of seats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x1)
- Hand in your assignments on Friday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x2)
- The reporter was on assignment in Kenya. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x3)
- The spy accepted a dangerous assignment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x4)
- I finished the maths assignment early. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x5)
- The assignment of tables was done by drawing names. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «assignment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«assignment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/assignment.html) on Mova free.