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Synonyms for assignment

• responsibility
• appointment
• undertaking
• designation
• distribution
• consignment
• dealing out
• assignation
• apportionment

the act of distributing or the condition of being distributed

• admeasurement
• dispensation

the act of attributing

• attribution

a piece of work that has been assigned

A making over of legal ownership or title, a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces).

• duty assignment

Related Words

• sentry duty
• fatigue duty
• reassignment
• service abroad
• shipboard duty

the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

• legal document
• legal instrument
• official document
• jurisprudence

the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

• storage allocation

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

• transferred possession
• transferred property

an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

• school assignment
• writing assignment
• written assignment

the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

• determination
• co-optation
• recognition
• assertively
• assertiveness
• assertiveness training
• asseveration
• asseverator
• assibilation
• assiduousness
• assimilable
• assimilating
• assimilation
• assimilative
• assimilator
• assimilatory
• assistant foreman
• assistant professor
• assisted suicide
• associability
• associableness
• associate degree
• Associate in Applied Science
• Associate in Arts
• assigned to you
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Antonyms for assignment əˈsaɪn mənt as·sign·ment, this page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term assignment ., matched categories.

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assignment, duty assignment noun

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

"hazardous duty"

Synonyms: appointment , assigning , duty assignment , assignment , designation , grant , naming

assignment noun

the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

Synonyms: appointment , assigning , duty assignment , designation , grant , naming

assignment, assigning noun

the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

"the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"

grant, assignment noun

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Synonyms: duty assignment , appointment , subsidisation , assigning , designation , naming , assignment , grant , concession , subsidization

an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

appointment, assignment, designation, naming noun

the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

"the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

Synonyms: duty assignment , appellation , appointment , date , appellative , assigning , designation , appointee , identification , assignment , naming , grant , fitting , engagement , denomination

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Synonyms: transfer , conveyance , apportionment , appointment , allotment , allocation , emplacement , determination specification , adducing

How to use Assignment in a sentence?

Rochelle Kopp :

Under Japanese labour law, if you are a permanent employee, refusing a job transfer or other job assignment is the same as saying that you are quitting, it’s so commonplace that people just think it’s normal.

Angelica Varela :

As conservation work, I mean were doing this so that eventually we dont have to keep doing it. Angelica Varela drove up from Phoenix with Angelica Varela friend, Brandi Kapos, who is an Olive Garden waitress and an Arizona State Univerisity conservation biology graduate. Shes looking to return to school to get a masters degree in Geographic Information Systems. Before Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos got their assignment from Jennifer Cordova for the night, they said they had energy drinks and candy. Angelica Varela said Angelica Varela was pumped. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduates Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos. ( Fox News) Jennifer Cordova said the goal is to get the black-footed ferret off the endangered species list. Fox News important because wildlife dont have a say -- theydont have a voice out there, Holly Hicks said. So, its people like us who manage and try to keep that voice out there and people aware. Our passion comes from a lot of places. We love animals. We want to see wildlife in the future for future generations. Only found in North America, this wild animal differs from the European pet ferrets that are domesticated. The black-footed ferret was once thought extinct until 18 were found in 1981. Since then, recovery and breeding efforts have helped the black-footed ferret population grow. I kind of feel like its our duty.

Herbie Ziskend :

She took that assignment, traveled the country, met with providers and Americans, and convened lawmakers, and worked to get this into the final bill.

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Contacting any writing service for assignment help in UK is not breaking the law. But it can be considered as cheating by your university. Which can lead to disciplinary proceeding if you get caught. Therefore it is imperative that you choose a reliable and safe service for your help.

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Dr. Bright has not been given any details about his new assignment or what his new job would entail ; nonetheless, under his doctor's direction, he has been on sick leave due to hypertension caused by this current situation.

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Related terms for assignment - synonyms, antonyms and sentences with assignment, similar meaning.

• appointment
• designation
• responsibility
• apportionment
• undertaking

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• leisure time
• vacation trip
• leisure travel
• leisure trip
• pleasure trip
• tourist journey
• tourist trip
• creative writing
• high level of unemployment
• high rate of unemployment
• unemployment
• retentiveness
• lares and penates
• material possession
• suppuration

Common usage

• multitasking
• interest level
• positive outcome
• induction program
• do an errand
• academic performance
• multiple jobs
• work like a dog on
• throw a wrench in the works
• put a spanner in the works
• throw a monkey wrench in the works

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• Study personnel were unblinded to subject assignment
• To be on assignment
• The first task is the assignment of an address to each datum
• A homework assignment
• Action is disabled because cycle for assignment is canceled

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Antonym to 'Assign'

Suppose we have users and operators. Some users are assigned to certain operators. What should I call a procedure of removing an assignment, so an operator no longer works with a user or group of users? What are some antonyms for assign ?

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What about "dissociate" or "deallocate"?

• 9 Wouldn't it be more associate/dissociate, allocate/deallocate? –  cdmckay Commented Dec 3, 2014 at 2:36
• I vote for unassigning! Language is flexible :) –  User Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:21

There is some question about whether it is a real word, but I have seen and occasionally used "deassign."

• 3 I also saw 'unassign', but it doesn't sound well. –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 10:15
• 1 I agree, unassign doesn't sound quite right. A variable can be unassigned, but I don't think this should be used as an active verb. –  James McLeod Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 13:01

If you " assign " users to an operator, you may " remove " users from the operator.

• 2 It's opposite, operators are being assigned to groups of users. So if i can 'assign operator to group', then i can't say that i'm 'removing operator from group' because group consists of users, not operators. –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 10:16

Divest comes to my mind:

(transitive) To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice). You shall never divest me of my right to free speech.

So if the original procedure is:

Assign users to an operator.

The antonym is:

Divest an operator of users.

• 3 Wikitionary says it's an archaic word. I think many of my colleagues don't have it in their vocabulary, I also hear it for the first time. Is there a more widespread word? –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 8:50
• 2 It's archaic for the meaning of "undress", not for the meaning we're talking about here. –  Frantisek Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 8:57
• 2 @RiMMER You completely missed the point. Nobody knows what the word divest means, and nobody uses it, so it is a poor choice even if you think it's *technically* correct. –  BadHorsie Commented Jul 23, 2019 at 11:03

You can revoke a task that has been allocated to someone

• 2 Maybe i'm just carping, but revoke is more of use with privilegies. And i have a group of users being supported by operator. –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 8:56

How about "dismiss" ? one of the word's definitions is - "discharge from employment or office" which fits quite perfectly as far as I can see. "assign a doctor" / "dismiss doctor" at least one more option to the mentioned above )))

Consider using absign .

Why? Due to the morphology of assign :

Middle English, from Anglo-French assigner, from Latin assignare, from ad- + signare to mark, from signum mark, sign

The opposite of "ad" in Latin is "ab", and it's used in words such as "abstain", "absolve", "abdicate" etc. in English. So, replacing "ad" with "ab" gets you "absign".

Why not? I've not heard anybody else use it.

• 2 Well, morphology of a word is not exactly a well-known thing. Especially for non-native speakers whose primary interest is English, not Latin or any other related language. A fact that you didn't hear anyone using it means it's not common for average person's active vocabulary. In my case I had to find a well-known word since it was intended for use in software code. A good code should be self-describing. It won't be if a person reading will have to look refer to a dictionary to understand function's name. –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented May 22, 2018 at 12:52
• 1 And "absign" is not in any of my dictionaries. –  Breandán Dalton Commented Aug 7, 2019 at 17:14

If the user is moved to a different operator, I would go for "reassigned", which carries the proper connotations, I feel.

• 1 No, it's just link between them being removed –  Aleksandr Kravets Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 8:26

Resign is a proper answer to your question.

• 2 No, it is not. I assign someone else the task. I don't resign someone else the task. –  Luke_0 Commented Nov 14, 2012 at 15:06

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verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] give out.

• unauthorized
• assign (English)
• assigner (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] select something or someone for a specific purpose.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] attribute or credit to.

• stay in place
• electronic mail
• anthropomorphize
• reattribute
• externalise

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] attribute or give.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] make undue claims to having.

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.

• deglycerolize
• pass judgment

verb. ['əˈsaɪn'] transfer one's right to.

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Kamala Harris’ VP pick: Who’s up and who’s down on her running mate list?

Kamala Harris is moving swiftly to lock up the Democratic nomination for president and appeared to have enough delegate support to do so by Monday evening.

Her next major task: selecting a running mate. 

Rather than moving to challenge Harris for the mantle, in the first 24 hours of her candidacy, the potential vice presidential picks began jockeying to be on her shortlist.

The top contenders parsed questions from reporters eager to hear if they’d be interested in a job that could put them a heartbeat away from the presidency. They went on social media to joke about their newfound interest. Some even hit the major TV shows typically watched by White House officials, such as “Morning Joe,” to confirm that calls with Harris had taken place.

"I think if somebody calls you on that, then what you do is at least listen," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who confirmed Harris reached out, said on the MSNBC program Monday morning.

For their part, Harris’ campaign team has been tight-lipped about the process and who might be under serious consideration. One item that did surface: former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, will conduct the vetting of Harris' potential partner on the campaign trail, Reuters reported on Monday.

Potential running mates include a deep bench of younger Democrats who have been widely seen as White House contenders in their own right once President Joe Biden got out of the picture. They range from swing state governors to a former astronaut now serving in the U.S. Senate and one popular Cabinet official who ran for president against Biden and Harris in 2020. 

All of them bring their own bases –  and liabilities – while auditioning to join the brand new Harris ticket.

"The primary consideration should be someone who will have the same effect on the electorate that she does, because then it will be a one two punch," Halie Soifer, a former national security adviser to Harris in the Senate, told USA TODAY.

Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said she anticipates the pick will share Harris’ urgency to defend democratic norms, protecting reproductive rights and rejecting isolationist foreign policy views while serving as a direct contrast to the Republican ticket.

Moore, Whitmer pass on joining ticket

Two governors who may have fit that bill took themselves out of the running on Monday, Michigan’s Gretchen Whimer and Maryland’s Wes Moore .

“I’m not leaving Michigan,” Whitmer, a staunch abortion rights proponent whose state borders Canada, told a local TV station on Monday.

Moore, a combat veteran, said Monday during a conference in Washington, D.C. that being VP isn’t something you can’t be “recruited or drafted” to do. “I am absolutely in love with my state,” he said.

The 59-year-old vice president, who's already broken barriers , is poised to be the first Black woman and Asian-American Democratic nominee for president. A former California attorney general and prosecutor, allies contend her judicial background will be a perfect contrast for voters to asses against Republican nominee Donald Trump, the first former president to ever to be both indicted and convicted of a crime.

But GOP critics and other skeptics are quick to spotlight how she fumbled early assignments in the Biden administration. There are other electoral weaknesses Harris has that a well chosen running mate could help balance out, political observers say.

Harris is expected to have a compressed period of time to make a decision, with the Democratic National Convention set to begin in less than four weeks. Recent history suggests a Democratic VP announcement comes a few days , or up to a week , before the national convention, though there have been exceptions this century too.

Vice presidential candidates run separately in the Democratic Party’s process, and whoever Harris picks will receive a separate vote on the convention floor. 

Quentin James, a DNC delegate from Ohio, said choosing a running mate should be about helping Harris pave a smoother pathway to victory.

“I definitely think it needs to be someone of the opposite gender, who can help win some important swing states and with a military background,” he said.

James, founder and president of Collective PAC, which is aimed at increasing Black political participation, didn’t want to specify if his group has a certain person in mind. 

But he urged his group’s members in a conference call Sunday to petition delegates and other party leaders about who they think should be on the ticket.

“It has to be someone who both strengthens her resume and adds to some of the gaps she may face,” James said.

Here is a rundown of the rumored running mates Harris is considering:

Josh Shapiro

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's name has risen to the top of the list of potential VP contenders.

A former state attorney general like Harris, the 51-year-old Democrat is the Keystone State's most popular governor in decades and could help deliver Democrats an electoral victory in the critical areas. His moderate stances and blue collar appeal may also prove to be an asset for Harris in other must-win Rust Belt states, including Wisconsin and Michigan. 

That could prove especially important with Ohio Sen. JD Vance on the Republican ticket alongside Trump.

Michael Traugott, an emeritus research professor of political studies at the University of Michigan, said governors of battleground states are bound to be at the top of Harris' list "because they want somebody with executive experience" who can benefit the vice president in the Electoral College hunt.

"It's a little hard to figure precisely because we're short the polling of assessing the actual democratic team against Trump and Vance," he said.

Shapiro gained national recognition for his quick response to a 2023 I-95 overpass collapse , and, more recently, his leadership after the attempted assassination Trump in Butler, Pa. The latter earned him bipartisan praise, including from Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick .

One downside? Shapiro has led Pennsylvania as governor for only two years and is relatively inexperienced compared to several of the other VP contenders. He’s also unlikely to excite the party’s progressive base, given his position on the I srael-Hamas war .

Shapiro, who is Jewish, has yet to call for a cease fire. 

Pete Buttigieg

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is perhaps the most well-known of the potential VP picks who could want the job. He achieved national fame in 2020 after launching a longshot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and has maintained his status as a rising star while serving in the Biden administration. 

During his failed 2020 White House campaign, Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., pitched himself as a plainspoken Democrat who could speak to Republicans and understood the problems of blue collar workers in midwestern battleground states. He notched a surprise victory in Iowa and did well with white, working class Democrats. 

But in a general election, Buttigieg’s identity as an openly gay man makes some Democrats nervous about the ticket's ability to bring conservative-leaning independent voters into a big tent, anti-Trump coalition. 

Harris will already be judged more harshly because of her likely status as the first Black and Asian American woman to lead a major party ticket, those naysayers often say.

Andy Beshear

A two-term Democratic governor of a deeply conservative state, Kentucky's Andy Beshear has demonstrated he can bring a broad group of voters into the Democratic fold, including Trump-Republicans and independents. 

In a national election that is being increasingly framed around unity after the assassination attempt against Trump, Beshear’s bipartisan sensibilities could help Democrats temper accusations from Republicans of using inflammatory campaign rhetoric. 

The 46-year-old governor may also be an effective messenger against Vance, who became famous for authoring the book Hillbilly Elegy about his Appalachian roots. Beshear, who represents portions of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky, has forcefully criticized Vance’s portrait of the region.

During Monday's appearance on "Morning Joe," for instance, the Bluegrass State governor laid into Trump's running mate, saying: "I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like, cause JD Vance ain't from here."

Some Democrats, however, see the little-known Beshear as too safe a choice and one who doesn't benefit Harris on the electoral map given Kentucky is a solidly red state. He’s relatively unvetted on the national stage compared to some of the other VP contenders.

JB Pritzker

As governor of Illinois, billionaire JB Pritzker has garnered a more progressive reputation than some of the other Democrats being considered for the VP post.

Choosing him as a running mate might help Harris shore-up support among the Democratic Party’s left flank. 

Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain , has a net worth estimated at more than $3 billion - money that could come in handy during a contentious election year. He’s also part way through his second term as governor, which means he’s not currently campaigning for another office.

One point in the against-column for Pritzker: Illinois isn’t a battleground state, meaning he won’t help Harris carry any electoral votes. Illinois is also the host of the party’s 2024 convention, a role that the governor acknowledged on Monday puts him in a complicated position.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has won six statewide elections in the 2024 battleground state, including two gubernatorial races.

Some Democrats believe that as VP, he could be a secret weapon for flipping the southern swing state from red to blue down the ballot this year.

Like Pritzker, Cooper is closing out his time in the governor's mansion this year. And, he’s friendly with Harris. They both served as their state’s respective attorney general from 2011 to 2017, and she described him as a “ dear friend ” during a recent campaign rally. 

Cooper’s age could work both ways for him. The North Carolina governor is 67, making him the oldest, and the most experienced, of the current VP contenders.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly won two elections in the pivotal swing state in the last few years: a special election in 2020 to finish out the term of the late GOP Sen. John McCain, and a full term in 2022. 

Traditional vice presidential selection criteria suggests that choosing Kelly as a running mate could help boost Democrats chances of winning the Sun Belt swing state. 

Shannon O’Brien, a professor of American politics at the University of Texas at Austin, suggested that Kelly’s military experience as a former naval aviator and U.S. astronaut could help neutralize patriotic messaging from the Trump campaign, adding an air of masculinity to the Democratic ticket.

Kelly’s wife is a wildcard too. He’s married to former Rep. Gabby Giffords, a Democrat who can share the powerful story of surviving a gunshot to the head during a 2011 mass casualty event in Tuscon. That could prove to be an advantage in an election year when gun violence has again taken center stage, this time after Trump’s rally shooting. 

“You can't attack him on patriotism,” O’Brien said of Kelly. “The moment Trump starts going after him over an assassination attempt, he probably should shoot back, ‘Yeah you got grazed with a bullet. My wife took a bullet to the skull.’”

Kelly's experience in Washington also sets him apart from the governors on the list.

Every vice president since Walter Mondale in 1977 previously served in the House or Senate first. For Kelly, those relationships with sitting lawmakers could help a future Harris administration in getting legislation passed.

Synonyms of assigned

• as in entrusted
• as in allotted
• as in ceded
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Synonyms & Similar Words

• commissioned
• recommended
• distributed
• apportioned
• administered
• shared (out)
• contributed
• meted (out)
• reallocated
• parceled (out)
• redistributed
• parcelled (out)
• reapportioned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deprived (of)
• appropriated
• confiscated
• transferred
• relinquished
• disposed of
• passed (down)
• transmitted
• handed down
• surrendered
• turned over
• handed over
• expropriated
• constituted
• inaugurated
• consecrated
• singled (out)
• blackballed

Thesaurus Entries Near assigned

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