assignment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
Pronunciation
[edit]Hyphenation: a‧ssign‧ment
Noun
[edit]assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
- An assigned task.
- The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (programming): augmented assignment
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of assigning; allocation of tasks
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categorization
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task
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position
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typically a task given to students
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transfer of rights or benefits
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document that effects this transfer
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operation(s) that assign a value to a variable
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References
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assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chinese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- asm (pseudo-acronym)
Etymology
[edit]From English assignment.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: aa6 saai1 man4
- Yale: ah sāai màhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: aa6 saai1 man4
- Guangdong Romanization: a6 sai1 men4
- Sinological IPA (key): /aː²² saːi̯⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]assignment
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) assignment; homework; coursework (Classifier: 份 c)
Synonyms
[edit]| Variety | Location | Words |
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| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 家庭作業, 功課 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 家庭作業, 功課 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 功課, 家課, assignment |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 功課, 宿題 |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 功課 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 功課, 宿題 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 功課, 課題 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 功課, 宿題 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 功課, 宿題 | |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 宿題 |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 功課 | |
References
[edit]- Bauer, Robert S. (2021) ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 10
- English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
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