לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

assignment

CEFR B1

a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with assignment, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her first assignment at the newspaper sent her to photograph the harbor at dawn every day for a month.

    Photography

  • The young lieutenant accepted an assignment guarding the mountain supply road, a post nobody in the regiment wanted.

    History

  • Each intern received an assignment from the platform team, and hers was to document every undocumented internal endpoint.

    Technology

  • Her assignment was to close the Lisbon office in ninety days without losing a single client.

    Business

  • The resident's first assignment was the overnight shift in the emergency room, where the attending expects quick decisions.

    Medicine

  • The graduate student's assignment was to calibrate the spectrometer every morning before the rest of the lab arrived.

    Science

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