assignment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. countable,uncountable
    — This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
  2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. countable,uncountable
    — We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
  3. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.; The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. countable,uncountable
  4. An assigned task. countable,uncountable
    — The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
  5. A position to which one is assigned. countable,uncountable
    — Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
  6. A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. countable,uncountable
    — Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
  7. A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. countable,uncountable
    — The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
  8. A document that effects this transfer. countable,uncountable
    — Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
  9. An operation that assigns a value to a variable. countable,uncountable

词形变化

assignments plural

词汇关系

下位词
augmented assignment
衍生词
address assignment antiassignment assignment operator frequency assignment misassignment nonassignment Procrustean assignment reassignment time-assignment speech interpolation unassignment understand the assignment

词源

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
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