assignment

B1 · Intermediate Countable noun

n. a job or duty that you are given to do by your boss or company.

n. a specific task or duty assigned to an individual or group in a professional context.

日本語:仕事※

“Her first assignment in the new job was to organize the annual conference.”

“The journalist accepted a dangerous assignment in a conflict zone, knowing the risks involved in reporting from the front lines.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Uncountable noun Academic

n. the act of giving someone a particular job, position, or category.

n. the process of allocating a specific role, responsibility, or classification to a person or object.

日本語:割り当て※

“The assignment of roles for the play took several hours of discussion.”

“The efficient assignment of resources is critical to the success of any large-scale infrastructure project.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Law Formal · Technical

n. the legal transfer of a right, property, or benefit to another person.

n. the formal transfer of a legal right, interest, or title from one party to another.

“The assignment of the lease must be signed by both the old and new tenants.”

“The contract includes a clause prohibiting the assignment of intellectual property rights without prior written consent from the board of directors.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Computing Technical

n. the act of giving a specific value to a variable in a computer program.

n. a statement or operation that sets or resets the value stored in a storage location denoted by a variable name.

“The programmer used an assignment to change the player's score to zero.”

“The script failed because an assignment was attempted on a constant variable that had already been initialized.”