transitionnoun
the act of giving someone a different job or position, or an example of this: （为某人）再分配，再指派（工作）;再指定（职位）
Our department deals with the reassignment of personnel.我们的部门负责处理人员的重新分配。
Layoffs, early retirements and job reassignments will be used to meet teacher contract demands.裁员、提前退休和工作调动等办法将被用来满足教师合同的要求。
the act of giving a piece of work to a different person, or an example of this: （将某项工作）指派给其他人
The reassignment of security tasks from one department to another may seem bureaucratic. 将安全工作从一个部门重新分配到另一个部门可能看起来很官僚。
the act of giving something to a different person, or sharing things out in a different way, or an example of this: （将某物）给其他人;（以不同方式）再分配
Some in the international community are calling for a reassignment of aid priorities. 国际社会有人呼吁重新考虑援助的优先次序。
This annex permits reassignments of financial assets between categories.该附加条款允许在不同类别之间重新分配金融资产。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving, providing and supplying
accommodate
accommodate someone with something
administer
administration
afford
arm someone with something
be good for somethingidiom
dish
hand something around
hand something back
hand something down
hand something in
outfit
provision
put something on
re-equip
re-equipment
reassign
rebid
render

reassignment | Business English

reassignment
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌriːəˈsaɪnmənt/us
WORKPLACE, HR
the process of giving an employee a different job, or arranging for an employee to work in a different place:
District officials say the reassignments are the result of a districtwide restructuring plan.
reassignment to sthWe have been assured that Ms Duprez's reassignment to the community-relations board is not linked to any wrongdoing.

Examples of reassignment

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Subsequent residential relocation was rare and typically proved extremely difficult, requiring government approval and reassignment.
The holdings of a decedent with no lineal descendants and no designated heirs reverted back to the community for reassignment.
First, the reassignment of stress to this vowel is cyclic.
A controlled study of psychological and social change after surgical gender reassignment in selected male transsexuals.
This induces a reassignment of the resources of the economy toward the capital-goods sector, resulting in relatively less consumption and more capital accumulation.
Here the lack of a second nuclear slot is not compensated for by the reassignment of the adult glide to a nonnuclear position.
A particularly crucial aspect of management is gender reassignment for the genotypic male.
The process is repeated until no reassignments are made.
The failure of adequate development of a brain area may produce adaptive reassignment of function.
The mean age of the subjects who underwent the gender reassignment operation was 27.3 years (range 22-37 years).
The following result assures us that the reassignment of default jumps defined above is correct.
Thus, sequence-sensitive individuals read off the conceptual representation of the sentence and perform a thematic role reassignment.
The appearance of a design can be quickly changed simply by reassignment of material properties, not in the design, but in a table of materials.
Reassignment of tasks may be thought to be the best way to ensure the success of the project.
Adjustments and reassignments between aggregate disease categories will doubtless continue to blur the lines of demarcation between diseases as new understandings of aetiology and of relationships between infections develop.
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