assignment

B1 Topic:Work & Careers

US /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ See IPA manual

Freq #3889

Meanings

1

noun
A task or piece of work that you are given to do.

The assignment the department gave him proved quite challenging.
2

noun
A piece of work given to students, such as homework.

Mrs Smith said we had to finish our assignments by Monday.
3

noun
The act of giving someone a job or task to do.

The chart shows the assignment of tasks across the committee.
4

noun
The legal transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

3 noun · the act of giving someone a... assigning

Word family

Forms assignments

Derived forms antiassignmentmisassignmentnonassignmentreassignmentunassignment

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Phrases (1)

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writing assignment
a task requiring someone to produce a piece of writing

Noun + noun

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

assignement Middle English

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Topics

Work & Careers

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# assignment

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /əˈsaɪn.mənt/
**Frequency rank:** 3889

## Meanings
1. A task or piece of work that you are given to do.
2. A piece of work given to students, such as homework.
3. The act of giving someone a job or task to do.
4. The legal transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

## Examples
- The assignment the department gave him proved quite challenging.
- Mrs Smith said we had to finish our assignments by Monday.
- The chart shows the assignment of tasks across the committee.
- The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

## Derived Forms
- antiassignment
- misassignment
- nonassignment
- reassignment
- unassignment

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: assignement

## Etymology
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

## AI Etymology
Assignment is from Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign plus -ment. The suffix -ment makes a noun of action, result, or state from assign, matching uses in which the word names an act, process, outcome, or condition. In use as a noun, assignment denotes a task or piece of work that you are given to do, a piece of work given to students, such as homework, and the act of giving someone a job or task to do. The same word family continues in derived forms such as antiassignment, misassignment, nonassignment, and reassignment.

## Topics
- Work & Careers

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