What is another word for assignments?

Pronunciation: [ɐsˈa͡ɪnmənts] (IPA)

When it comes to school or work, assignments are a common part of our lives. From homework to projects and tasks, it's important to know different synonyms that can help us describe these assignments in different ways. Here are some alternatives to the word 'assignment': task, project, exercise, activity, mission, job, duty, chore, commission, exercise, homework, test, quiz, report, examination, written work, essay, research, and paper. Using these synonyms can make your writing more varied and interesting, and can also show your range of vocabulary and understanding. So the next time you have an assignment, try using one of these alternatives to make it sound more unique.

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What are the hypernyms for Assignments?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Assignments

Briefly, he had gotten out of his boyhood assignments of washing bowls in tubs, being the seamstress attaching jasmine flowers into rosaries from a long, thick needle, selling them on the streets in the traffic, and then returning to wash more bowls.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
When a man has been hanging around the world in a bored way for thirty-two years, just waiting for Fate to catch up with its assignments and trundle you along within my range in order to give the sun a rest- Oh, well-if you forgive me of course I'll stop anything you say.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
In spite of the complaints that come into this office in regard to your cavalier tactics in carrying out your assignments, you and your team are our most competent operatives.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds

Famous quotes with Assignments

  • When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
    Philip Emeagwali
  • Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
    Fred F. Fielding
  • For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
    Paul Kane
  • It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
    Charles Kuralt
  • I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
    Lata Mangeshkar

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