1. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).

Rhymes with Assignment

• realignment
• consignment
• confinement
• refinement
• alignment

How do you pronounce assignment?

Pronounce assignment as əˈsaɪnmənt.

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Sentences with assignment

1. Noun, singular or mass
She needs to sign off on the assignment of title.

Quotes about assignment

1. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
- John Lennon

2. CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
- Bill Watterson

3. Don't take this next undercover assignment. Stay with me instead."Nick's eyes pierced hers, refusing to let her off that easily. "Tell me why.""Because... I love you."She exhaled. No take-backs. The words were out there forever.And it felt great.
- Julie James, A Lot like Love

2. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.

3. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the act of distributing something to designated places or persons.

4. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor).

5. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.

6. assignment

noun. ['əˈsaɪnmənt'] the act of putting a person into a non-elective position.