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词汇 assignment
释义 assignment
noun
uk /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ us /əˈsaɪn.mənt/
B1[ C ]
a piece of work given to someone, typically as part of their studies or job: (尤指学习或工作方面的)任务,作业
a freelance/photo assignment自由职业/摄影任务
I have a lot of reading assignments to complete before the end of term.期末前我有大量阅读作业要完成。
[ C ]
a job that someone is sent somewhere to do: (被派遣出去做的)工作
a foreign/diplomatic assignment外交任命
 on assignment
Someone who is on assignment is doing a particular job or piece of work, usually in a particular place where they have been sent for a period of time: 执行任务;(通常指被派遣到特定地点从事一段时间的)工作
Both journalists were killed while on assignment in the region.
[ U ]
the process of giving a particular job or piece of work to someone, or of sending someone to a chosen place to do a job: 分配(任务);指派(人员)
assignment of the various tasks各种任务的分配
It was a jammy assignment - more of a holiday really.这是项很容易的任务——实际上跟休假差不多。
He took this award-winning photograph while on assignment in the Middle East.
His two-year assignment to the Mexico office starts in September.
She first visited Norway on assignment for the winter Olympics ten years ago.
He fell in love with the area after being there on assignment for National Geographic in the 1950s.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Work, working and the workplace
act as something
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
bandh
be at workidiom
be in workidiom
grind
hoop
housekeeping
in the line of dutyidiom
induction
industry
job
join dutyidiom
moonlight
slave
slog
slouch
spadework
subtask
sweat

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Giving, providing and supplying

assignment | American Dictionary


assignment
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈsɑɪn·mənt/
a particular job or responsibility given to you:
[ C ]The homework assignment was to read Chapter 2 in our history book.

Idiom


on assignment

assignment | Business English


assignment
noun
uk /əˈsaɪnmənt/us
[ C ]
a task or a piece of work that is given to someone to do, often for a limited period of time:
a six-month assignment
Solving the industry's infrastructure problems while satisfying shareholders is going to be a tough assignment.
give sb an assignmentOur team was given an assignment to find the gaps in the market.
accept/refuse/take on an assignment
carry out/complete/finish an assignment
global/international/overseas, etc. assignmentOne of his first overseas assignments was as a junior in a delegation to Moscow.
Assessment for the course will be based on four written assignments and a final examination.
[ U ]
the process of giving someone a particular job, task, or responsibility:
The restructuring will require changing the assignment of responsibilities and reporting relationships.
[ C or U ] LAW
the act of giving something that belongs to you, such as a property or a financial agreement, to somebody else:
The Agreement will terminate automatically in the event of its assignment.
The assignment of a legal lease must be in the form of a deed to be effective.
 on assignment
someone who is on assignment is doing a job in a particular place, usually for an agreed amount of time:
The photographer died while on assignment in the war zone.

See also


deed of assignment
wage assignment

Examples of assignment


assignment
Apart from that, there is a suspicion that programming without assignments or side-effects is difficult, or restrictive.
Intuitively, taking advantage of sequential evaluation of boolean connectors in such a context means mixing enumeration of variable assignments and evaluation of boolean expressions.
Therefore, when the base-value assignments are inconsistent with the spreadsheet formulae, every value is logically entailed in every cell, thus rendering the spreadsheet useless.
A set of constraints range over these variables, which specify the allowed combinations of value assignments.
A stable solution may then make use of a set of assignments with as low as probability of loss as possible.
The non-terminal vertices are labelled by propositional variables and the arcs are labeled by the assignments 0 or 1 of the originating variables.
The second pass, convert-assigned, rewrites references and assignments to assigned variables as explicit structure accesses or mutations.
Quantification over predicate assignments is realized by iterating over all type-compatible predicate assignments.
Consequently, the addition of assignments to the back end did not cause any immediate problems.
The number of experiments needed here and also for nucleic acid assignments strongly depends on the degree of spectral overlap.
Nevertheless, for purposes of annotating a genome, most people would hope for more specific assignments of function than any of these categories.
Ambiguous peak assignments are treated as separate distance restraints in the structure calculations, and erroneous assignments are eliminated in iterative cycles.
In most cases the two analyses predict similar stress assignments.
Thus, the algorithm searches on a tree where intermediate nodes stand for partial assignments and leaves stand for total ones.
The others were on shor t-term assignments for a period of one to several months.
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Collocations withassignment


assignment

These are words often used in combination with assignment.

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committee assignment
Thus, we might hypothesize that as the size of a legislature increases, the value of each committee assignment increases because there are fewer of them per member.
difficult assignment
For the most part, the more delicate and difficultassignment of paternity during this century has fallen upon the courts - long after the birth of the child.
general assignment
Then there are provisions with regard to generalassignment of book debts, which will generally be void unless registered.
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