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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#m1)

2) A job or task someone is given at work. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/#m3)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assignment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assignment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.