the opposite meaning of assignment

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noun as in responsibility, task

Strongest matches

• appointment

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noun as in selecting or setting apart

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

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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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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to assignment, such as: appointment, chore, drill, duty, homework, and job.

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Antonyms for assignment

• unemployment

Definition of assignment

• late 14c., "order, request, directive," from Old French assignement "(legal) assignment (of dower, etc.)," from Late Latin assignamentum , noun of action from Latin assignare (see assign). Meaning "appointment to office" is mid-15c.; that of "a task assigned" (to someone) is from c.1848.
• noun responsibility, task
• noun selecting or setting apart
• You've got your berth, you've got your money, you're going to get your passport, and you've got your assignment.
• Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
• It was at noon of the third day he had been at work when John was given his first assignment.
• Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
• One of the detectives detailed to this assignment was Hyman Ginsburg.
• Extract from : « From Place to Place » by Irvin S. Cobb
• He had given me the assignment of putting antigrav units into production.
• Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
• And it can show us that a nation's assignment of a mission to itself is not a sudden growth.
• Extract from : « Chosen Peoples » by Israel Zangwill
• This reversed the assignment, and the rear room became Miss Sanford's.
• Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
• Then, with quick change of subject, "But I haven't congratulated you on your assignment."
• Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
• Your assignment, Mr. President, has been exciting and challenging.
• Extract from : « The Nation's River » by United States Department of the Interior
• The assignment of everyone to a definite post has raised the general spirit.
• Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
• A corporation may make an assignment just as may an individual.
• Extract from : « Up To Date Business » by Various

Synonyms for assignment

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

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Assign antonyms

What is the opposite word for assign .

• keep select and give a responsibility, set apart for a reason
• fire select and give a responsibility
• deny select and give a responsibility
• withhold set apart for a reason
• retain set apart for a reason
• refuse select and give a responsibility, set apart for a reason
• reject select and give a responsibility
• hold set apart for a reason
• disorganize
• appropriate
• expropriate

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Meaning of assignment in English

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• It was a jammy assignment - more of a holiday really.
• 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.
• act as something
• all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
• be at work idiom
• be in work idiom
• housekeeping
• in the line of duty idiom
• join duty idiom

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Synonyms of assigns

• as in tasks
• as in allots
• as in cedes
• as in appoints
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Thesaurus Definition of assigns

Synonyms & Similar Words

• commissions
• distributes
• administers
• contributes
• shares (out)
• parcels (out)
• metes (out)
• redistributes
• reallocates
• reapportions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deprives (of)
• appropriates
• confiscates
• relinquishes
• disposes of
• passes (down)
• expropriates
• constitutes
• inaugurates
• consecrates
• singles (out)

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“Assigns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assigns. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.

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