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noun as in responsibility, task

Strongest matches

  • appointment

Strong matches

noun as in selecting or setting apart

  • distribution
  • apportionment
  • appropriation
  • assignation
  • attribution
  • authorization
  • consignment
  • designation
  • determination
  • specification
  • stipulation

Example Sentences

Yariel Valdés González and I faced these challenges while on assignment in South Florida and the Deep South from July 21-Aug.

They’re putting time into decoration just as they would in their physical classroom, and students can interact with the space by, say, clicking on a bookshelf to get a reading assignment.

For now, if the district moves to in-person learning, instruction in Carlsbad will take place on campus five days per week and students may engage in additional independent practices and other assignments at home.

The assignments must also respect the relationships between the elements in the group.

It’s very hard, by the way, to do real random assignment studies of couples therapy.

His most recent assignment was the 84th Precinct, at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.

When Lewis was shipped off to Vietnam, his son was just three months old, and the timing of the assignment worried Lewis.

When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and Cirque du Soleil was only a few years old.

“For our winter issue, we gave ourselves one assignment: Break The Internet,” wrote Paper.

By the 1950s the rapid assignment of gender to an ambiguously gendered infant had become standard.

Consent to an assignment may be given by the president of the company, without formal vote by the directors.

A transfer by the lessee of the whole or a part of his interest for a part of the time is a sublease and not an assignment.

An assignment to one who has an insurable interest as relative, creditor and the like, is always valid.

When an assignment of it is made, the assignee may sue in his own name for rent accruing after the assignment.

In some states statutes forbid the assignment of such policies for the benefit of creditors.

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Words related to assignment are not direct synonyms, but are associated with the word assignment . Browse related words to learn more about word associations.

noun as in matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity

  • circumstance
  • office function
  • responsibility
  • transaction
  • undertaking

noun as in arrangement for meeting; prearranged meeting

  • consultation

noun as in job, position of responsibility

  • officeholder
  • representative

noun as in allocation, setting aside

  • setting apart

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Synonyms of assignments

  • as in tasks
  • as in missions
  • as in lessons
  • as in appointments
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Thesaurus Definition of assignments

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • responsibilities
  • undertakings
  • enterprises
  • commissions
  • requirements
  • obligations
  • commitments
  • appointments
  • constraints
  • designations
  • nominations
  • compulsions
  • installments
  • delegations
  • authorizations
  • investments
  • installations
  • instalments
  • destinations
  • emplacements
  • ordinations
  • deputations
  • investitures
  • anointments

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • depositions
  • dismissions
  • dethronements

Thesaurus Entries Near assignments

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“Assignments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignments. Accessed 25 Oct. 2024.

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